A Distant Trumpet Francis Marion Crawford Dating from the age of

Dating from the age of Bede the Venerable

Hosanna to the Son of David

First and foremost

in its own right

Through these characters and the ordinary life of Gerona

A Distant Trumpet Francis Marion Crawford Dating from the age ofBy Paul Horgan Historical in substance, romantic in spirit, heroic in scale, A Distant Trumpet is a novel of the American West. At its center is Matthew Carlton Hazard, born in 1857 at Fox Creek, Indiana; raised by his mother after his fathers death in the Battle of Chickamauga; and designated, at the solemn age of seven, by President Abraham Lincoln himself to the Army of the United States. Commissioned in 1880 as second lieutenant of cavalry,