Imperial Kelly

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781453295496

<DIV><b>Yellowstone Kelly has dealt with Indians, Zulus, hapless Brits, and Mormons. Now the intrepid scout meets his greatest challenge: Theodore Roosevelt.</b></div><DIV><BR>Nowadays US Army Major Luther &ldquo;Yellowstone&rdquo; Kelly isn&rsquo;t the young lively man he once was. He&rsquo;s cantankerous, stubborn, and his nagging illnesses are exacerbated by the slightest provocation. Still, Kelly is called back into action by his most irritating boss yet: a young assistant secretary of the navy by the name of Theodore &ldquo;Teethadore&rdquo; Roosevelt.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>The future president needs a crew of toughs to join his Rough Riders outfit, and he correctly reckons that Kelly has an inside track on some of the nastiest ones. Kelly enlists a rascally crew, including his friends Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and helps Roosevelt win the Spanish-American War. Next an impressive piece of jade leads him over the Pacific, before he&rsquo;s summoned to observe the outbreak of the Boer War. While sailing to southern Africa, he runs into Winston Churchill in Mozambique . . . and on Kelly stumbles into other areas of the history books. Whether he&rsquo;s being chased by Boers or Igorote tribesmen, Kelly always maintains his trademark cynicism and resourcefulness, somehow finding a way to always land on his feet&mdash;even if Teethadore is determined to take credit for it. </div>