Western King, Charles: Trumpeter Fred. v1. 15 May 2013

[crutledge]

Charles King (October 12, 1844 in Albany, New York – March 17, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer.

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THERE were only thirty in all that night when the troop reached the Niobrara and unsaddled along the grassy banks. Rather slim numbers for the duty to be performed, and with the captain away, too. Not that the men had lack of confidence in Lieutenant Blunt, but it was practically his first summer at Indian campaigning, and, however well a young soldier may have studied strategy and grand tactics at West Point, it is something very different that is needed in fighting these wild warriors of our prairies and mountains.

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[crich70]

it is something very different that is needed in fighting these wild warriors of our prairies and mountains.

If a book is a reflection of its author then the passage above certainly shows that the author was a man of his time. After all the prairies and mountains only became U.S. property via making treaties that weren't worth the paper they were printed on.