Set in the Arizona of the early 1870s, during the army’s campaigns against the Apache, this novel follows young officers at dusty desert posts, their wives and sweethearts, and Tonio, a slender scout of the sierras. Charles King had served in those campaigns himself, and he writes the army life from memory. His view of the Apache is the army’s view of 1906.
Frontier-army fiction from its best-known practitioner, for readers of cavalry Westerns. Download the free EPUB.