A Distant Trumpet Francis Marion Crawford men and women as the

men and women as the “architects of their own misfortune

By Henri Ghéon | Afterword by G

natural and divine

Elizabeth MacKinstry (1878–1956) was an American poet and illustrator of children’s literature

Dating from the age of Bede the Venerable

A Distant Trumpet Francis Marion Crawford men and women as 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,