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...Northerners and Southerners, officers and men, cow boys and college graduates, wherever they came from, whatever their social position—possessed in common...man born adventurers, in the old sense of the word. Some of them went by their own names; some had changed their names; and yet others possessed but half...

...cow boys and college graduates, wherever they came from, whatever their social position — possessed in common the traits of hardihood and a thirst for...man born adventurers, in the old sense of the word. Some of them went by their own names; some had changed their names; and yet others possessed but half...

...cow boys and college graduates, wherever they came from, whatever their social position — possessed in common the traits of hardihood and a thirst for...man born adventurers, in the old sense of the word. Some of them went by their own names; some had changed their names; and yet others possessed but half...

...resolute, weather-beaten faces and eyes that looked a man straight in the face without flinching ... to a man born adventurers, in the old sense of the word." Mostly, these adventurers were cowboys, prospectors, a few drifters, and ne'er-do-wells, hunters of...

...common. First, they were all superb horsemen. Second, as Theodore Roosevelt was to write, they "possessed in common the traits of hardihood and a thirst for adventure. They were to a man born adventurers." Roosevelt himself was a "born adventurer." Born in 1858, he was a frail youngster who grew into an...

...cow-boys and college graduates, wherever they came from, and whatever their social position — possessed in common the traits of hardihood and a thirst for...man born adventurers, in the old sense of the word" (14). Roosevelt's vision of America as embodied in the Rough Riders included only men strengthened...