About this title: The story of a new West Point graduate posted to the Arizona Territory who must learn to deal with both whites and Indians on a frontier where violence is a way of life.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good. Very good, no marks, no writing, clean & clear text, tight binding, hardcover, pub in 1960 by Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Cudahy
Description: Fair. 100% guaranteed. This book is worn inside, Former library book with library marks, yellowing pages, clean pages of text, and shelf wear. We work hard to make you happy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Cudahy, NY
Description: Fair. B000NXJCZ8 Book Club Edition. 100% guaranteed. Acceptable condition overall with a tight spine, worn and torn dust cover, crease on front cover of book, clean pages, yellowing pages, and normal shelf wear. We work hard to make you happy. read more
Edition: First Crest printing October 1961
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Crest, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Used; spine creases, cover is rubbed, corners and edges sharp. Pages clean and unmarked. Nice solid copy! 623 p. M475 read more
Description: Good. No Jacket. Good David R. Godine, Pub, 1991 softcover shows some wear to cover and edges of spine. Old price marked inside, Some creasing evident, pgs are clean, no markings, etc. A very good and solid trade-size book. read more
Description: Good. -Book Club (BCE/BOMC)--629 pgs. Interior-nice overall condition. Cover has only light signs of wear. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Description: Good in Good + jacket. -Book Club (BCE/BOMC)--500 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The boards and DJ have light signs of aging. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
"I shuffled this book to the bottom of the pile twice before I caved in and read it. It is touted, currently, as a Western, and on the cover of the older editions, it is said to be a love story. Turns out what it is, is a book that I plan to add to my keeper shelf, that shelf of books that ought to get 6 stars minimum, once I get a copy that stays in one piece. The glue on the spine of the 1962 paperback from Crest/Fawcett seems determined to dry out and let go of the pages.
When Abraham Lincoln rolls through town, Matthew Hazard is one very, very determined boy: he’s going to meet Lincoln! He does, of course, and their meeting sets Matthew’s life on a path to the Arizona Territory, via West Point. Hazard’s determination is one of his greatest characteristics. It brings him everything he has in his life, including his wife Laura, whose mother was none too keen on her daughter marrying a man who would drag her to the end of civilization and beyond. Their life is full of the sort of adventure that makes up the best and bravest, and the worst and saddest, in our history.
The first surprise for me was that this really is a love story. And the second was that it isn’t. There are several stories of couples here, and most of them are love stories, but they’re more than that. Who the characters are in their relationships – romantic and otherwise – defines who they are when the chips are down, and the chips are down often out west at that time. Many, many books weave sub-stories in and out, some successfully, some predictably. A Distant Trumpet is far more successful than others. What a wonderful surprise this book turned out to be!
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