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The Tough Riders is the story of the First US Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Theodore Roosevelt resulted in enduring popularity in Cuba through the Spanish-American Warfare. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment grew up from a unique mixture of hardened Southwestern frontiersmen and privileged Northeastern school graduates and how it been trained in Texas before cruising southward through the tropic seas toward the unknown. Writing at a time when war could still be regarded as a romantic experience, and wealthy with action, violence, camaraderie, and courage, Roosevelt explains the distress of struggling with in the jungle; the heat, hunger, rain, dirt, and malaria that analyzed his men; and their ultimate triumph on the San Juan Heights.
