Sunset Pass by Charles King
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ePublished by
August 2023
Originally published 1890
Fiction, Charles King collection
Author: Charles King
ePublished by
August 2023
Originally published 1890
Fiction, Charles King collection
Author: Charles King
No writer is better than Charles King at bringing the reader vividly and realistically into the life of a U. S. Army soldier during the late-19th-early-20th century. Because of his personal experience as an officer in the conflicts of that period, he not only gets the historical details correct, but also the settings, moods, and day-to-day life, including the personal, romantic, financial, and family life of the soldiers living on those far-flung military posts along the western frontier.
In Sunset Pass; or, Running the Gauntlet through Apache Land he exposes what should have been obvious, though something that most of us probably never consider: that those cavalrymen fighting the Indian wars of the Wild West had families and sometimes had to move those families in and out of, and through, some very dangerous war zones—in this case the Apache war zone in the Territory of Arizona during the 1870s. And sometimes, as the author herein describes, they made mistakes in judgment as they planned those family trips, endangering the very people they least wanted to expose.
This particular Charles King novel is enhanced by twenty illustrations by an artist who was unfortunately not credited on the title page, which is a shame because the illustrations are pretty good and the artist deserves credit.
In Sunset Pass; or, Running the Gauntlet through Apache Land he exposes what should have been obvious, though something that most of us probably never consider: that those cavalrymen fighting the Indian wars of the Wild West had families and sometimes had to move those families in and out of, and through, some very dangerous war zones—in this case the Apache war zone in the Territory of Arizona during the 1870s. And sometimes, as the author herein describes, they made mistakes in judgment as they planned those family trips, endangering the very people they least wanted to expose.
This particular Charles King novel is enhanced by twenty illustrations by an artist who was unfortunately not credited on the title page, which is a shame because the illustrations are pretty good and the artist deserves credit.