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The first definitive account of this famous fighting force and its extraordinary head, Theodore Roosevelt, Make Lee Gardner's Abrasive Riders is narrative nonfiction at its most invigorating and compulsively listenable. Its remarkable unfolding of an familiar yet not totally known report will remind listeners of James Swanson's Manhunt. Two months following the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Feb 1898, Congress authorized Chief executive McKinley to recruit a volunteer military to drive the Spaniards from Cuba. From this army emerged the famous "Difficult Riders", a mounted regiment attracted 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, most of them friends of "TR". Roosevelt and his men quickly came up to symbolize American ruggedness, daring, and individualism. He led those to victory in the famous Challenge at San Juan Hill, which made TR a national hero and cemented the Abrasive Riders' place in history. Now, Make Lee Gardner synthesizes previously unknown most important accounts as well as period newspapers articles, words, and diaries from general population and private archives in Arizona, Tx, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Boston, and Washington, DC, to produce this authoritative chronicle. He breathes fresh life in to the Abrasive Riders and will pay tribute to their daring feats and indomitable head. Gardner also explores lesser-known aspects of the storyplot, including their romance with the BLACK Buffalo Military, with whom they fought side by side at San Juan Hill. Rich with action, assault, camaraderie, and courage, Abrasive Riders sheds new light on the Theodore Roosevelt saga - and using one of the most fascinating chapters in American history. The songs "Uncle Cliff" was written and performed by Make Gardner, copyright 1985.
