The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.

With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.

The message is very bad for Texas. If I kill a policeman in San Antonio and I go to hide in Mexico, I'm going to be sure that nobody is going to do anything to me.

San Antonio can be beaten.

I'll take San Antonio, I got nothing.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.