Abstract

“They’re ghost riders now, those Fort Riley Cavalrymen.“ So wrote John McCormally in the Salina Journal, reprinted in the Daily Union Centennial Edition, June 24, 1953.

Keywords:

• cavalry,
• memory,
• story,
• army,
• Ft. Riley,
• military,
• troops,
• soldiers,
• farm boy,
• farmer,
• US Cavalry,
• Custer,
• Comanche,
• Little Big Horn,
• history,
• tradition,
• honor,
• cowboy,
• saddles,
• description,
• peacetime,
• war,
• golden years