Listen to The Rough Riders

From Theodore Roosevelt comes The Rough Riders, available as a complete audiobook for Biography & Memoir listeners.

accustomed to handling wild and savage horses . . to following the chase with the rifle, both for sport and as a means of livelihood . . they were hardened to life in the open, and to sh Theodore Roosevelt’s personal account of The Rough Riders, the name affectionately bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one to see action. Roosevelt, serving first as Lt. Colonel and 2nd in command, gives a rousing dsweepingtion of the men and horses, equipment, talent, their trip to Cuba, battle strategies, losses, injuries and victories. He says: “In all the world there could be no better material for soldiers than that afforded by these grim hunters of the mountains, these wild rough riders of the plains . .

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