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Slightly rough ride up San Juan Hill.(Arts)(Television)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19970720
Author:DeJohn, Christian

Reflecting on the charge of his First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry up Cuba's San Juan Hill in July 1898, President Theodore Roosevelt said, "We turned the pages of history." War correspondent Richard Harding Davis wrote of the charge, "It was a miracle of self-sacrifice, a triumph of bulldog courage, which one watched with breathless wonder."

At the dawn of the "American Century" - the Rough Riders and their leader embodied a young, cocky, virile America, ready to take on all comers. Media darlings during the war, they represented the finest ideals of American democracy. Ivy ...

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