A Distant Trumpet Francis Marion Crawford Through these characters and the

Through these characters and the ordinary life of Gerona

ISBN: 978-1685951382

By Hilaire Belloc

By Henri Ghéon | Afterword by G

A Distant Trumpet Francis Marion Crawford Through these characters and theBy Paul Horgan Historical in substance, romantic in spirit, heroic in scale, A Distant Trumpet is a novel of the American West. At its center is Matthew Carlton Hazard, born in 1857 at Fox Creek, Indiana; raised by his mother after his fathers death in the Battle of Chickamauga; and designated, at the solemn age of seven, by President Abraham Lincoln himself to the Army of the United States. Commissioned in 1880 as second lieutenant of cavalry,