Describes how Teddy Roosevelt formed the Rough Riders at the beginning of the Spanish-American War and led them into battle at San Juan Hill.
The Crowded Hour feels like the best type of war reporting—told with a clarity that takes nothing away from the horrors of the battlefield” (The New York Times Book Review).
Gardner also explores lesser-known aspects of the story, including the Rough Riders’ relationship with the African American Buffalo Soldiers, with whom they fought side by side at San Juan Hill.
The Story of the Rough Riders, 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry: The Regiment in Camp and on the Battle Field
This book tells their story. They fought heroically and courageously, making Roosevelt's campaign a great success that added to the future president's legend as a great man of words and action.
President Roosevelt's personal narrative of his adventures during the Spanish-American War. The Rough Riders were a uniquely American crew of cowboys, scholars, land speculators, American Indians, and African Americans, and...
This hardly seemed a tribute to my military skill; but it delighted the crowd, and as far as I could tell did me nothing but good. On another tour, when I was running for VicePresident, a member of the regiment who was along on the ...
In this rip-roaring account of his time with the "Rough Riders," Roosevelt gives readers a first-hand glimpse of what it was like to fight alongside the legendary regiment.
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In The Boys of '98, Spur Award winning author Dale L. Walker tells the colorful story of Americas most memorable fighting force, the volunteer cavalry known as the Rough Riders.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.