The most famous American in history before World War I, Richard Harding Davis is little known today. Yet in the time after Queen Victoria, he was America's most famous person as a reporter, writer and lecturer. He was the first embedded reporter in history, writing and working with The Rough Riders in their charge up San Juan Hill. He covered wars, floods, Wall Street plunderers and the last days of the cowboys in the Wild West. He wrote about American knighthood , although he did not call it that. The story of Americans doing "the right thing" be they prince of industry or lowly dockworker. The good in the American always was on display. No one writes about these ideals today. No one believes in them anymore. But we want to.......