A THUNDER OF DRUMS Author:James Warner Bellah Captain Maddocks was the toughest soldier on the frontier. So to Maddocks, his new lieutenant, McQuade, was just another West Point dude - a man to be broken, ground down, remade into a fighting machine for killing Indians. — But Lieutenant McQuade was the son and grandson of generals. Born on a cavalry post, raised on gunpowder, he was proud, ... more »stubborn and rebellious.« less