BEST OF #29 OF 492) MEET THE ROUGH RIDERS

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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When the US Battleship Maine was blown up in Havana, Teddy Roosevelt and others knew that war was inevitable- and he wanted to go and fight. When Congress gave the OK to form a volunteer cavalry brigade, Roosevelt got busy recruiting-specifically men who could ride and shoot- and soon had applications from all over the US. Within weeks he had nearly 1,000 men from every walk of life- lawmen, cowboys, Indians, gamblers, college athletes, clergymen, backwoodsmen, frontiersmen, prospectors, and more- all of whom had one thing in common- they wanted adventure and they wanted to fight for the American flag.

This is Chapter 1 from Teddy Roosevelt's Book "The Rough Riders", written in 1898. We will present this book in its entirety in the months to come at our long format story podcast 1001 Stories For The Road, where we just finished "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs and where we just started "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (which I have edited to make family friendly).. We encourage you to subscribe to 1001 Stories For the Road- the link is below.

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0:00.0	And the Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to this special one
0:27.0	heroes episode called Meet the Ruff Riders.
0:34.0	I had often heard growing up of the story of Teddy Roosevelt's Ruff Riders
0:38.0	and how they stormed up San Juan Hill in Cuba on a mission to remove Spain from Cuba.
0:44.0	These were amazing times in those last few years of the 19th century
0:48.0	as America was feeling her oats
0:50.0	and deciding to become a world power,
0:52.0	something for which every American should be proud.
0:55.0	It was men with a vision, like Teddy Roosevelt,
0:58.0	that understood the importance of protecting our borders,
1:00.5	building a strong fleet, and entering the world stage boldly as a power.
1:05.0	Never again would another country attack mainland United States,
1:09.0	and they would think twice about attacking U.S. owned territories outside of our borders.
1:14.9	The Rep Writers was a nickname given to the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three
1:19.7	such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one to see action.
1:26.6	The United States Army was small, understaffed, and disorganized in comparison to its status
1:31.9	during the American Civil War, roughly 35 years prior.
1:36.0	Following the sinking of the USS Maine, President William McKinley needed to muster a strong ground force military group swiftly, which was done so by calling upon
1:46.0	125,000 volunteers to assist in the war efforts.
1:50.9	The US was fighting against Spain over Spain's colonial policies with Cuba.
1:55.0	The regiment was also called Woods Weary Walkers in honor of its first commander, Colonel Leonard Wood.
2:02.0	Woods second in command Commander, Colonel Leonard Wood.
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