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Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders
Stories Bigger Than Texas: The Alamo Podcast
Episode 131: Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders
Just footsteps from where the world-famous Battle of the Alamo was fought, a new generation of frontiersman stepped up to fight for freedom. Legend has it, a future president recruited them inside the Menger Hotel bar - and with their signatures, wrote a new chapter of the Alamo’s already storied history.
We reveal why Theodore Roosevelt formed the Rough Riders, where in San Antonio they trained, and how the Alamo remembers the Rough Riders legacy today. Featuring the Alamo's Researcher Thomas Ledesma…
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