{"product_id":"a-distant-trumpet","title":"A Distant Trumpet","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Paul Horgan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistorical in substance, romantic in spirit, heroic in scale, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Distant Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e 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 father’s 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, Matthew reports for duty to Fort Delivery, Arizona, where he will contend in the Apache Wars; serve under and with brave fellow officers like Captain Hiram Prescott and the enigmatic Major General Upton Quait; learn the ways of love and duty in his marriage to Laura Greenleaf; befriend White Horn, Apache-chief-turned-Army-Scout, and with him conduct a death-defying mission to bring peace at last to the wild, war-torn Western frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAssembling a cast of memorable characters and crafting one exciting episode after another, Paul Horgan proves himself in these pages as a master storyteller with the head of a hist­orian and the heart of a poet. A best-selling success after its original publication in 1960, \u003ci\u003eA Distant Trumpet \u003c\/i\u003ehas been hailed as “a towering structure of romantic fiction built on a solid foundation of fact”; “a vivid, pulsating tale”; “a first-rate historical novel about the eternally mystifying, fascinating, dramatic complexities of human character”; and “the finest novel yet on the Southwest.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur tasks, like the winds, are never finished.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA soldier’s work, to be done, sometimes has to be done over and over…\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Horgan \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e(1903–1995) was an American Catholic historian and novelist, praised by David McCullough as “a writer of large vision and many-sidedness” with a matchless “command of language and feeling for human nature.” Author of forty-plus books, including seventeen novels, Horgan received two Pulitzer Prizes (in 1955, for \u003ci\u003eGreat River: The Rio Grande in North American History\u003c\/i\u003e; in 1975, for \u003ci\u003eLamy of Santa Fe\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as nineteen honorary degrees and the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 540pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953355\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100039438703,"sku":"978-1685953355","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1051.jpg?v=1781124880","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/a-distant-trumpet","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}