Word: horganitis
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FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)* 2. Hawaii, Michener (2) 3. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (3) 4. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute (6) 5. The Constant Image, Davenport (4) 6. Ourselves to Know, O'Hara (7) 7. The Lincoln Lords, Hawley (5) 8. A Distant Trumpet, Horgan (8) 9. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (9) 10. The Affair, Snow
...Distant Trumpet, Horgan...
...Distant Trumpet, by Paul Horgan...
...Distant Trumpet, by Paul Horgan. The Southwest comes vividly and impressively alive in this fictional reconstruction of the Indian wars...
...history has supplied Horgan with some fine prototypes: his tall, gaunt, white-bearded General Quait brings to crotchety life the veteran U.S. Indian fighter, General George Crook; and his hero's final mission recalls the remarkable trek of Lieut. Charles Gatewood into the mountains of Mexico to talk the unpredictable Geronimo into surrendering. That surrender, as Horgan puts it, marked the end of "an Indian war that has raged since the days of Cortez." Matthew Hazard's Arizona was made safe for supermarkets and swimming pools, just as John Cozad's Platte River country was plowed into...