A Distant Trumpet - 1962 Author:Paul Horgan "A DISTANT TRUMPET is literally a veritable harvest of a novel. It has momentous historical action in the final conquest of the Apache Indians by U.S. Army pioneers in the American Southwest; it has fully dimensioned and enchanting characters; it contains mental as well as battle duels of the hightest dramatic impact; it has a lean spare prose t... more »hat often flames into poetry by its sheer exactness and tooled precision of phrase...
"No small part of Horgan's triumph is the clarity of design, of form, which meshes all these vibrant lives into a clear unified world.... In scene after scene, with matchless skill, he brings the reader cheering to his feet...
"This book is the kind that enriches not only a period and a scene. It is life-enchanting... It will make more friends among discerning readers than any American novel published this year."