Two future statesmen collaborated in 1895 on twenty-six short accounts of American courage, from Washington, Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark to Trenton, Bennington, King’s Mountain and Stony Point, the defence of the Alamo and episodes of the Civil War. The sketches praise daring, duty and patriotism in plain, vigorous prose.
A period piece of patriotic history whose national pieties are those of the 1890s, written by Roosevelt before his presidency. Download the free EPUB.