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U.S.V
THEODORE ROOSEVELT AS A ROUGH RIDER
Copyright 1898
by B. J. Falk.
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ARTISTL
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT AS A ROUGH
RIDER. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War
Theodore Roosevelt resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
and having had practical experience as a horseman of the
plains during his ranching days in North Dakota, organized
the First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, - - familiarly known as the
"Rough Riders'', niade up largely of cowboys, frontiersmen,
college athletes and other picked men, whose most notable
exploit was the charge at San Juan Hill, Cuba, when the
regiment lost 8 men killed and 34 wounded.
