This is the first volume of a four-volune work. The total work represents the culmination of more than twenty years of painstaking research. It is an exhaustive delineation, in words and pictures, of every aspect of the attire and equipment of that most exciting of all United States military forces--the cavalry.
Volume I covers the Revolutionary period, with a detailed account of the "sires" of the United States Cavalry, the Continental Light Dragoons. Then come the War of 1812 and the formation of the United States Mounted Ranger Battalion, and later the United States Dragoons. The...
This is the first volume of a four-volune work. The total work represents the culmination of more than twenty years of painstaking research. It is ...
This is the third volume of a projected four-volume work delineating, in text and voluminous illustrations, every aspect of the uniforms and equipment of that most colorful of all United States military forces--the cavalry.
In Volumes I and II the author described and pictured the uniforms, arms, and equipment of the cavalry from Revolutionary days to the outbreak of the Indian Wars. In this volume the author addresses the period of the cavalry's decisive conquest of the Indians and the securing of the western frontier, the Spanish-American War and the glory of "Teddy Roosevelt's boys,"...
This is the third volume of a projected four-volume work delineating, in text and voluminous illustrations, every aspect of the uniforms and equipm...
This is the fourth and final volume of Randy Steffen's monumental work, The Horse Soldier. With this volume the work brings together-in nearly a thousand pages of text and nearly 500 illustrations-a comprehensive history of the cavalryman's dress, horse equipment, weaponry - every item the horse soldier wore, carried, or used-from Revolutionary times to World War II. Volume IV covers the final twenty-five years-the World War I years, when the United States Cavalry fought for the first time as part of an allied force; the peacetime years, when the cavalry was largely a "show" force; and World...
This is the fourth and final volume of Randy Steffen's monumental work, The Horse Soldier. With this volume the work brings together-in nearly a thous...
