Teddy Roosevelt: The Rough Riders
(2026)(The ninth book in the America250 series)
A novel by Terrence McCauley
Glory. Destiny. The sting of combat he’d dreamed of since childhood.
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt stands on the deck of the Yucatan as American guns open fire on Spanish fortifications at Daquiri. The former Assistant Secretary of the Navy has fought for this war. Now he will fight in it—at the head of the most unlikely regiment America has ever fielded.
Cowboys and millionaires. Outlaws and Ivy Leaguers. Miners, lawmen, and bronco busters. The Rough Riders. They train as cavalry, land without horses, and march into the Cuban jungle under a blistering sun while the regular army and the press wait for them to fail.
What begins as a boyish hunger for glory becomes something far harder. Ambush at Las Guasimas. The bloody scramble up Kettle Hill. The grinding siege of Santiago. Roosevelt discovers that war does not care about romantic notions. It only cares who keeps moving when the Mausers start singing and the men begin to fall.
From the chaotic landing at Daquiri to the raising of the Stars and Stripes over Santiago, Teddy Roosevelt: The Rough Riders delivers a lean, hard-edged portrait of the man who would become legend—and the price he paid to earn it.
Genre: Western
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt stands on the deck of the Yucatan as American guns open fire on Spanish fortifications at Daquiri. The former Assistant Secretary of the Navy has fought for this war. Now he will fight in it—at the head of the most unlikely regiment America has ever fielded.
Cowboys and millionaires. Outlaws and Ivy Leaguers. Miners, lawmen, and bronco busters. The Rough Riders. They train as cavalry, land without horses, and march into the Cuban jungle under a blistering sun while the regular army and the press wait for them to fail.
What begins as a boyish hunger for glory becomes something far harder. Ambush at Las Guasimas. The bloody scramble up Kettle Hill. The grinding siege of Santiago. Roosevelt discovers that war does not care about romantic notions. It only cares who keeps moving when the Mausers start singing and the men begin to fall.
From the chaotic landing at Daquiri to the raising of the Stars and Stripes over Santiago, Teddy Roosevelt: The Rough Riders delivers a lean, hard-edged portrait of the man who would become legend—and the price he paid to earn it.
Genre: Western
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