...frontier when there still was a frontier. They were a splendid set of men, these Southwesterners — tall and sinewy, with resolute, weatherbeaten faces, and...man who wandered hither and thither, killing game fora living, and spending his life in the cjuest for metal wealth. In all the world there could be...

...frontier when there still was a frontier. They were a splendid set of men, these Southwesterners — tall and sinewy, with resolute, weatherbeaten faces, and...flinching. They included in their ranks men of every occupa tion ; but the three types were those of the cow-boy, the hunter, and the mining prospector...

...were a splendid set of men, these Southwesterners," writes their commander with just pride ; "tall and sinewy, with resolute, weatherbeaten faces, and...looked a man straight in the face without flinching. In all the world there could be no better material for soldiers than that afforded by these grim hunters...

...cow-punchers, hunters, and mining prospectors from our territory in the southwest, "tall and sinewy men with resolute, weather-beaten faces, and eyes that...looked a man straight in the face without flinching." Mingled with these were crack athletes from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and Cherokees and Chickface...

...cow-punchers, hunters, and mining prospectors from our territory in the southwest, "tall and sinewy men with resolute, weather-beaten faces, and eyes that...looked a man straight in the face without flinching." MingIed with these were crack athletes from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and Cherokees and Chickface...

...made up the bulk of the regiment and gave it its peculiar character came from the Western Territories. They included in their ranks men of every occupation;...the cowboy, the hunter, and the mining prospector." One writer states that ninety-five per cent of the men had lived the life of cattle men on the great...

...Oklahoma and Indian Territories. He called them " a splendid set of men, these Southwesterners — tall and sinewy, with resolute, weather-beaten faces, and...looked a man straight in the face without flinching". When it came to providing combat experience, the hapless Cubans had nothing on Comanches, the Daltons...

...Furguson. In ultimate contrast stood the Westerners — "Tall and sinewy," Roosevelt described them, "with 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,...

...described them in his book about the Rough Riders "a splendid set of men, these Southwesterners — tall and sinewy, with resolute, weather-beaten faces, and...looked a man straight in the face without flinching". When it came to providing combat experience, the hapless Cubans discovered that they had nothing on...

...to his fabled backwoodsmen. "They were a splendid set of men," Roosevelt would later exclaim, "tall and sinewy, with resolute, weather-beaten faces, and...looked a man straight in the face without flinching." "In all the world," he added, "there could be no better material for soldiers than that afforded by...