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    Trumpets West!
    Trumpets West!
    Trumpets West!
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    Trumpets West!

    By Luke Short

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    An Indian-fighting officer carries on, facing danger and risking disgrace...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateJul 26, 2012
    ISBN9781479490004
    Trumpets West!
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    Luke Short

    Luke Short is the pen name of Frederick Dilley Glidden (1908–1975), the bestselling, award-winning author of over fifty classic western novels and hundreds of short stories. Renowned for their action-packed story lines, multidimensional characters, and vibrant dialogue, Glidden’s novels sold over thirty million copies. Ten of his novels, including Blood on the Moon, Coroner Creek, and Ramrod, were adapted for the screen. Glidden was the winner of a special Western Heritage Trustees Award and the Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award from the Western Writers of America.   Born in Kewanee, Illinois, Glidden graduated in 1930 from the University of Missouri where he studied journalism.  After working for several newspapers, he became a trapper in Canada and, later, an archaeologist’s assistant in New Mexico. His first story, “Six-Gun Lawyer,” was published in Cowboy Stories magazine in 1935 under the name F. D. Glidden. At the suggestion of his publisher, he used the pseudonym Luke Short, not realizing it was the name of a real gunman and gambler who was a friend of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. In addition to his prolific writing career, Glidden worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. He moved to Aspen, Colorado, in 1946, and became an active member of the Aspen Town Council, where he initiated the zoning laws that helped preserve the town.

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      Trumpets West! By Luke Short was an good old-fashioned western with crooked Indian Agents, Apaches who jump the reservation and an honest lieutenant who is willing to go against the fort Commander who is a wrong’un. Hardly surprising that it reads like a 1950’s western movie, as Luke Short was responsible for many of the scripts that those westerns were based on.This was a short book, more of a novella size, but packed with story as Lieutenant Hanna comes against his own Commander and the Indian Agent who are selling the beef supplied to the Indians for their own profit. Before Hanna can prove this, a group of Indians leave the reservation and go on a rampage. He is assigned the task of tracking them down. When the battle starts, Hanna leads the charge, but when he sends for reinforcements, they are nowhere to be found. The Commander has set him up for failure and perhaps even death.I am a fan of western stories, finding them great escape reading and Trumpets West was a great way to spend an afternoon.

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