To Ride With The 7th - Couverture souple

Townsend, Patrick

 
9781072796237: To Ride With The 7th

Synopsis

"The shrill call of bugles sounding, the thunder of hooves and echoes of gunfire had shattered the serenity of a sleeping Indian village, which lay coiled along the banks of the Little Big Horn River. What the Seventh Cavalry did not realize was that they had also awakened a sleeping giant of unexpected proportions.Young Private Timothy Donnelly galloped from atop the steep bluffs, along with the flamboyant Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his celebrated 7th United States Cavalry. Certain of victory, excited and energetic, Timothy spurs his horse Jose into battle! At age 19, he was desperate to seek adventure, fueled by tall tales of the wild frontier from Dime Novels and Penny Dreadful magazines read as a child back in England . The handsome Donnelly was deceptive as to his true age when he entered the recruitment office at Boston, adding two years to his birth to ensure his acceptance into the US Cavalry. Would he now pay the ultimate price or become a heroic figure? This debut novel puts a fresh spin on the traditional ‘Custer/Little Bighorn’ classics through years of fascinating research. It has produced a part-fictional, historically accurate story about a young boy’s desire to seek adventure and become his own man, thus ensuring his name will be echoed down through the centuries."

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