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Mark Lee Gardner

Biography

Mark Lee Gardner

Mark Lee Gardner is the author of TO HELL ON A FAST HORSE and SHOT ALL TO HELL, which received multiple awards, including a Spur Award from Western Writers of America. An authority on the American West, Gardner has appeared on PBS’s “American Experience,” as well as on the History Channel, the Travel Channel and on NPR. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, True West, Wild West, American Cowboy and New Mexico Magazine. He lives with his family in Cascade, Colorado.

Mark Lee Gardner

Books by Mark Lee Gardner

Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
by Mark Lee Gardner - History, Nonfiction

Two months after the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in February 1898, Congress authorized President McKinley to recruit a volunteer army to drive the Spaniards from Cuba. From this army emerged the legendary “Rough Riders,” a mounted regiment drawn from America’s western territories and led by the indomitable Theodore Roosevelt. Mark Lee Gardner synthesizes previously unknown primary accounts, as well as period newspaper articles, letters and diaries from public and private archives in Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Boston and Washington, DC, to produce this authoritative chronicle.