Tough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Cost Up San Juan Hill

The award-winning, new definitive historical past of Teddy Roosevelt and the legendary Tough Riders

“Thrilling. … A traditional.” —True West

WINNER: The Military Historic Basis Distinguished Writing Award; New Mexico-Arizona E book Award; and Colorado E book Award

The now-legendary Tough Riders have been a volunteer regiment recruited in 1898 to assist drive the Spaniards out of Cuba. Drawn from America’s southwestern territories and led by the irrepressible Theodore Roosevelt, these males included not solely cowboys and different Westerners, but in addition a number of Ivy Leaguers and clubmen, a lot of them associates of “TR.” Roosevelt and his males shortly got here to represent American ruggedness, daring, and individualism. He led them to victory within the famed Battle of San Juan Hill, which made TR a nationwide hero and cemented the Tough Riders’ iconic place in historical past.

Now Mark Lee Gardner synthesizes beforehand unknown major accounts—non-public letters, diaries, and interval newspaper experiences from private and non-private archives throughout the nation—to breathe contemporary life into the Tough Riders and pay tribute to their daring feats and indomitable chief.