The Rough Riders: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Rough Riders, credited to Theodore Roosevelt, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt. Read in English by William Peck Theodore Roosevelt's personal account of The Rough Riders, the name affectionately bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one to see action. Roosevelt, serving first as Lt. Colonel and 2nd in command, gives a rousing depiction of the men and horses, equipment, talent, their trip to Cuba, battle strategies, losses, injuries and victories. He says: "In all the world there could be no better material for soldiers than that afforded by these grim hunters of the mountains, these wild rough riders of the plains . . accustomed to handling wild and savage horses . . to following the chase with the rifle, both for sport and as a means of livelihood . . they were hardened to life in the open, and to shifting for themselves under adverse circumstances . . My men were children of the dragon's blood, and if they had no outland foe to fight and no outlet for their vigorous and daring energy, there was always the chance of their fighting one another: but the great majority, if given the chance to do hard or dangerous work, availed themselves of it with the utmost eagerness." (Michele Fry)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Rough Riders
• Author credits: Theodore Roosevelt
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 6:31:42

Catalogue topics

• Spanish-American War
• Theodore Roosevelt
• cavalry

Track guide

1. 01 - 1, 1 - Raising The Regiment — 24:45
2. 02 - 1, 2 - Raising The Regiment — 24:57
3. 03 - 2, 1 - To Cuba — 19:01
4. 04 - 2, 2 - To Cuba — 24:13
5. 05 - 3, 1 - General Young's Fight at Las Guasimas — 26:08
6. 06 - 3, 2 - General Young's Fight at Las Guasimas — 24:41
7. 07 - 4, 1 - The Cavalry At Santiago — 30:34
8. 08 - 4, 2 - The Cavalry At Santiago — 33:03
9. 09 - 5, 1 - In The Trenches — 25:13
10. 10 - 5, 2 - In The Trenches — 24:06
11. 11 - 6, 1 - The Return Home — 24:48
12. 12 - 6, 2 - The Return Home — 22:38
13. 13 - Appendix A - Muster-Out Roll — 2:47
14. 14 - Appendix B - Col. Roosevelt's Report to the Secretary of War of September 10th 1898 — 17:35
15. 15 - Appendix C - The 'Round Robin' Letter — 7:43
16. 16 - Appendix D - Corrections — 25:51
17. 17 - Appendix E — 20:25
18. 18 - Appendix F — 5:37
19. 19 - Appendix G — 7:37

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