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Rough Rider

noun

A member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898).

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"Rough Rider" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mrs. Valentin exclaimed. A sharp intuition told her there was trouble in the wind, and defensively she turned upon the presumptive cause. "The foolish boy! What he needs is an education. But he won't work for it. It's easier to go off mad and be a Rough Rider." ...

— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote

... their ranges and ranches? Do they ring with rough rider refrains? Do the cowboys scrap there with Comanches And other Red Men of the plains? Are the hills covered over with cattle In those mystic worlds far, far away? Do the ranch-houses ring with the prattle Of sweet little ...

— Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads • Various

... works are a statue called "Rhodesia," "Rough Rider Monument," a statue called "Lascire," which belongs to Dr. Jameson, busts of Cecil Rhodes, King Edward VII., Grover Cleveland, Vice-President Stevenson, Joseph Jefferson, Buffalo Bill, General Mahon, hero of Mafeking, Thomas ...

— Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. • Clara Erskine Clement

Words linked to "Rough Rider" : cavalryman, trooper