Captain Blake by Charles King
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June 2022
Originally published 1891
Fiction, Charles King collection
Author: Charles King
ePublished by
June 2022
Originally published 1891
Fiction, Charles King collection
Author: Charles King
No writer is better than Charles King—at the point when this novel was published a captain, but eventually a general—at bringing the reader more vividly and realistically into the life of a U. S. Army soldier during the wars with the plains Indians of the American West. Because of his personal experience of those wars, he not only gets the historical details correct, but also the settings, moods, and day-to-day life, including the personal, romantic, and family life of the soldiers living on those far-flung military posts along the western frontier.
Therein lies the secret of Mr. King’s novels: the romances and emotional entanglements of life on a 19th-century military base in the Wild West are the main focus of his stories, even in the midst of the various Indian wars and outbreaks which inevitably intruded upon those affairs.
Much longer than his usual works of fiction, Captain Blake sees the reappearance of a character from two previous novels (Marion’s Faith and The Deserter), brought back at the request of readers, and over the course of a number of years takes him through a series of emotionally complicated private issues while at the same time, along with the rest of his fellow-soldiers, he is dealing with Indian uprisings on America’s western frontier.
Therein lies the secret of Mr. King’s novels: the romances and emotional entanglements of life on a 19th-century military base in the Wild West are the main focus of his stories, even in the midst of the various Indian wars and outbreaks which inevitably intruded upon those affairs.
Much longer than his usual works of fiction, Captain Blake sees the reappearance of a character from two previous novels (Marion’s Faith and The Deserter), brought back at the request of readers, and over the course of a number of years takes him through a series of emotionally complicated private issues while at the same time, along with the rest of his fellow-soldiers, he is dealing with Indian uprisings on America’s western frontier.