TEDDY ROOSEVELT's ROUGH RIDERS { Part Two of Two }

© The Organ Mountains, Las Cruces, New Mexico

The Organ Mountains and Fort Filmore circa late 1800's

I  recently  roamed
the  desert  at  the  base  of
The Organ Mountains
lifting  and  pocketing
the  occasional
time  polished
Red Jasper,  Obsidian
and  Petrified Wood,

contemplating...
making  sense  of 
my  own  recent
Rough  Ride
that safely brought me 
full  circle  from  events
that  began  in  Key West,
many ~ many  years  ago.

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Old Mesilla Plaza By Leon Trousset circa late 1800's

I  certainly  wasn't thinking  about

Teddy  Roosevelt
carefully  handpicking
  1,060
Southwestern  men
as his

ROUGH 
RIDERS.




These  fearless  Cavalry  Men  were
HUNTERS  ~  NATIVE  AMERICANS  ~  COWBOYS  ~   RANCHERS
GOLD  and  MINING  PROSPECTORS  ~  GAMBLERS
POLICE  OFFICERS  ~  MILITARY  VETERANS  ~  COLLEGE  ATHLETES

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Town of Mesilla circa late 1800's

I  wasn't daydreaming about how Teddy Roosevelt
and the
Rough Riders
trained on horseback
and lived in the self same area
I was strolling through   ...

UNTIL  ...

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© Rough Rider Button Back

I  noticed  the  shank
of  a  button
sitting  in  the  sand
a  few  inches  from
my  boot.

Engrossed in my thoughts,
I was
ALMOST
too lazy to bend
and pick it up  ...

but curiosity
got the better of me

and
that simple action
twirled me into
a time travel ~

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© Rough Rider Button Front

back to the days
when

ONE
of the

ROUGH  RIDERS,

maybe even

Teddy
his self,

lost  a  button
off  his  uniform
which  waited

115  YEARS
in the sand
for
ME
to find !

---

The  nickel  sized  button  felt  like 
recognition  from  the 
GREAT  BEYOND
for  recent  personal  fearlessness
in  the  face  of  questionable  circumstances.

After  all,
it  is  said  that  New Mexico  is

THE  LAND  OF  ENCHANTMENT.

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A  SIX   MINUTE   DOCUMENTARY
ABOUT  THE  ROUGH  RIDERS  !

I'm  certain  that 
Teddy  Roosevelt  and  the  Rough  Riders 
well  understood  that

"GOD  did  NOT  give  us 
the  Spirit  of  Fear;
but  of 
POWER, 
and  of 
LOVE, 
and  of  a 
SOUND  MIND."
II Timothy 1:7


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