Title: The Rough Riders
First published: 1899
Description: "The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas toward the unknown." Writing at a time when war could still be seen as a romantic adventure, Roosevelt describes the confusion of fighting in the jungle; the heat, hunger, rain, mud, and malaria that tested his men; and his "crowded hour" of triumph on the San Juan Heights." "In An Autobiography (1913), Roosevelt recalls his lifelong fascination with natural history, his love of hunting and the outdoors, and his adventures as a cattleman in the Dakota Badlands, as well as his career in politics as a state legislator, civil service reformer, New York City police commissioner, assistant secretary of the navy, governor of New York, and president. Roosevelt writes of his battles against corruption and machine rule, efforts to establish America as a world power, historic achievements in conservation, and his growing conviction that only a strong national government and an energetic presidency could protect the public against the rapacious greed of modern corporations."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Lst Cavalry (Volunteer), United States Army. 1st Cavalry (Volunteer), United States vol. cav., United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st, 1st Cavalry (Volunteer), 1st, United States, Volunteer Cavalry, United States. Army. Cavalry, lst (Volunteer), United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st (1898), United States Cavalry. 1st Regt., 1898 (Volunteer), Presidents, United States. Army Cavalry (Volunteer), 1st, Personal narratives, Spanish-American War, 1898, Regimental histories, 1st Regt, Biography, History, Spanish-American War (1898) fast (OCoLC)fst01128682, Roosevelt, theodore, 1858-1919, Spanish-american war, 1898, personal narratives, Spanish-american war, 1898, regimental histories, United states, army, history, United States. Army. Cavalry. 1st Regt., 1898 (Volunteer), Volunteer Cavalry, 1st, Nonfiction, United states, history, Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories
Places: United States, 1898 Spanish-American War
People: Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Time periods: War of l898, 1898