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The first definitive account of this legendary fighting force and its extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Lee Gardner's Rough Riders is narrative nonfiction at its most invigorating and compulsively readable. Its dramatic unfolding of a familiar, yet not-fully-known story will remind readers of James Swanson's Manhunt.Two months after the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in February 1898, Congress authorized President McKinley to recruit a volunteer army to drive the Spaniards from Cuba. From this army emerged the legendary "Rough Riders," a mounted regiment drawn from America's western territories and led by the indomitable Theodore Roosevelt. Its ranks included not only cowboys and other westerners, but several Ivy Leaguers and clubmen, many of them friends of "TR.
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Mark Lee Gardner is the author of To Hell on a Fast Horse, about Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett. As an authority on the American West, he has appeared on the History Channel, PBS American Experience, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, Encore Westerns Channel, NPR, and BBC Radio. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, American Heritage, Wild West, New Mexico Magazine, and Journal of the West. Gardner lives with his family in Cascade, Colorado.
