Rough Riders : Theodore Roosevelt, his cowboy regiment, and the immortal charge up San Juan Hill
Two months after the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in February 1898, Congress authorized President McKinley to recruit a volunteer army to drive the Spaniards from Cuba. From this army emerged the legendary “Rough Riders, ” a mounted regiment drawn from America’s western territories and...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
2016
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