Mounted Warriors

Acclaimed historian Gene Smith brings the romance and drama of the cavalry to life in this vivid and impeccably researched account of mounted warfare through the centuries. Filled with colorful characters, pageantry, and dramatic confrontations such as the great Civil War cavalry clash between Jeb Stuart and Philip Sheridan, Mounted Warriors is destined to be a classic. Gene Smith is an acclaimed popular historian and longtime contributor to American Heritage and American Legacy. He is the New York Times bestselling author of When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson, the Civil War dual biography Lee and Grant (978-0-07-058473-0), and the General John G. Pershing biography Until the Last Trumpet Sounds (978-0-471-24693-0).

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Gene Smith is an acclaimed popular historian whose articles have appeared in American Heritage and American Legacy. His book When the Cheering Stopped was a New York Times bestseller. His Civil War dual biography, Lee and Grant, which was published in six editions and selected as a Book of the Month Club alternate, received glowing critical praise. He has owned, raised, and raced horses. He lives in New York State.

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Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1 Beginnings. 2 Xenophon and Alexander. 3 Barbarians and the Age of Chivalry. 4 The High Middle Ages. 5 "Terrible as Death, relentless as Doom". 6 "My children, follow me!" 7 Light-Horse Harry. 8 The Highest Calling a Soldier Could Know. 9 "The crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood". 10 "The best damned cavalryman ever foaled in America". 11 The War. 12 Little Phil. 13 "For this are we soldiers". 14 "No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses". 15 The Desert Mounted Corps. 16 "It was a bit of a facade, wasn't it?" 17 The Last Cavalry Charge. Bibliography. Index.

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