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Read [Paul Horgan Book] * A Distant Trumpet (Nonpareil Books) Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. A Distant Trumpet (Nonpareil Books) "Sprawling western novel" according to Bomojaz. A big, sprawling historical novel set mainly in the Arizona Territory after the Civil War about an army officer, Matthew Hazard, and his wife, Laura. It begins when Hazard as a child meets Abraham Lincoln during the war after his father has been killed and is told by the President to go to West Point and become a soldier. He does, meets and marries Laura, and both go to Arizona to deal with the Indians. Other major figures include General Alexander
| Title | : | A Distant Trumpet (Nonpareil Books) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.33 (500 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374140898 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 629 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
"Sprawling western novel" according to Bomojaz. A big, sprawling historical novel set mainly in the Arizona Territory after the Civil War about an army officer, Matthew Hazard, and his wife, Laura. It begins when Hazard as a child meets Abraham Lincoln during the war after his father has been killed and is told by the President to go to West Point and become a soldier. He does, meets and marries Laura, and both go to Arizona to deal with the Indians. Other major figures include General Alexander Quait and the Indian White Horn. The major event of . "Amazing literature" according to Anne Littlewolf. I have read "A Distant Trumpet" so many times I"ve lost count. I find it refreshing to see characters that are believable, realistically drawn, humanly flawed and humanly lovable. I consider, being a New Mexican, that Paul Horgan was a great gift to/from our state and that this novel is a great precursor to "Dances With Wolves". For the first time that I know of, Indian people are presented as real, dimensional people--and that is refreshing in a world the seems to idolize the B-western stereotypes o. "A Distant Trumpet" according to Amazon Customer. As a silent, shy teenager trying to learn more about life, myself, and a huge fan of all Western books or movies wherein I could immerse myself into the characters found in each page. I picked up this book and within a few pages found that I could not stop reading it. I instantly became part of each character's life. I felt within my whole being the thoughts and feelings that the Apache must have felt, and yet feeling and understanding how life for the American soldier must have been. The characters
Horgan's three-dimensional pageant of the daring and dangerous frontier life has been termed "the finest historical novel in American literature" (Gorham Munson) and "the finest novel yet on the Southwest --New York TimesA monumental work by a monumental writer. --San Francisco ChronicleIn the years to come our children will open this book with the same sense of discovery that kept me reading into the night It deserves a permanent place in our literature. A magnificently sweeping tale of the American West in the aftermath of the Civil War that is heroic in scale, rich in dramatic action, and filled with brilliant
Originally published in 1960 selling half a million copies at the time and first reissued as a Nonpareil paperback in 1991, this immensely popular work of fiction has attracted, informed, and been embraced by a whole new generation of readers.
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