01090cam a2200229 4500 3783417 TxAuBib 19970609120000.0 ||||||s1971||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u (OCoLC)731389128 TxAuBib Jones, Virgil Carrington, 1906- Roosevelt's Rough Riders. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday, 1971. 279 p : illus. photos. The Colorful Rough Riders were a volunteer cavalry equipment recruited largely by then Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodoore Roosevelt for service in the Spanish-American War. Toosevelt resigned his government post to join the regiment in battle as second-in-command, and his exploits in Cuba, expecially at the famous charge of San Juan Hill, started him on the road to the Presidency. 19970710. United States Army Volunteer Cavalry, 1st. United States History War of 1898 Regimental histories. TXMLR