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 te...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gardner, Mark Lee, 1960- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Roosevelt, Theodore, > 1858-1919 > Military leadership. United States. > Army. > Volunteer Cavalry, 1st. United States. > Army. > Cavalry, 10th. Spanish-American War, 1898 > Campaigns > Cuba. San Juan Hill, Battle of, Cuba, 1898.

Table of Contents:

Some turn of fortune
East meets west
A perfect welter of confusion
Cuba at last
Vultures overhead
Road to Santiago
A bully fight
The siege
The real foe
Crackerjacks in New York
Children of the dragon's blood.