No man was allowed to drop out to help the wounded.
Theodore Roosevelt
The Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
An immediate bestseller upon its release in 1899, The Rough Riders is Roosevelt’s personal writings on his adventures in the Spanish-American War. A truly American crew of cowboys, scholars, land speculators, Native Americans and African Americans, the Rough Riders’ triumphs and defeats are chronicled with riveting and engrossing detail.
ON BEHALF OF THE ROUGH RIDERS I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE FIVE REGULAR REGIMENTS WHICH TOGETHER WITH MINE MADE UP THE CAVALRY DIVISION AT SANTIAGO
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, 1899 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999
