A Distant Trumpet Author:Paul Horgan "A Distant Trumpet is literally a veritable harvest of a novel. It has momentous historical action in the final conquest of the Apache Indians by U.S. Army pioneers in the American Southwest; it has fully dimensioned and exciting characters; it contains mental as well as battle duals of the highest dramatic impact; it has a lean square prose tha... more »t often flames into poetry by its sheer exactness and tooled precision of phrase..." - The Dallas Morning News« less