Bibliograph

The Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt

Type

Label

The Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Rough Riders

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

881684028

Responsibility statement

Theodore Roosevelt

Summary

Legendary outdoorsman, conservationist and U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt first rose to national prominence as a leader of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, the crack team of volunteers who represented the country in the Spanish-American War. 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

Table Of Contents

The Rough Riders: Raising the regiment -- To Cuba -- General Young's fight at Las Guasimas -- The cavalry at Santiago -- In the trenches -- The return home -- Muster-out roll -- Colonel Roosevelt's report to the Secretary of War of September 10th -- The "round robin" letter -- CorrectionsAn autobiography: Boyhood and youth -- The vigor of life -- Practical politics -- In cowboy land -- Applied idealism -- The New York police -- The war of America the unready -- The New York governorship -- Outdoors and indoors -- The presidency; making an old party progressive -- The natural resources of the nation -- The big stick and the square deal -- Social and industrial justice -- The Monroe Doctrine and the Panama Canal -- The peace of righteousness

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