02390cam a2200349 i 4500 500953474 TxAuBib 20210428120000.0 210216s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020952805 9781643588827 hardback : alk. paper $35.95 1643588826 hardback : alk. paper $35.95 9781643588865 paperback 1643588869 paperback (OCoLC)1232226961 TxAuBib rda Heckelmann, Charles Newman, 1913- Trumpets in the dawn / Charles N. Heckelmann. Large print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2021. 519 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by: Doubleday. "During the years following the Civil War, Wyoming, Dakota, and Montana territories seethed with unrest as the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, resenting the white man's invasion of their sacred hunting grounds, ruthlessly attacked wagon trains and settlements. From its scattered forts the Army struggled to keep peace, but every cavalryman going on patrol realized that it might be his last. Knowing the dangers, Lieutenant Zane Travis was surprised to find Mary Gunnison - whom he had loved and lost to a fellow officer - in Cheyenne. Against regulations she joined Travis' mail detail to meet her husband at Fort Fetterman. On the way they were ambushed by Indians, the detail was destroyed, and Mary was captured. Travis survived, though seriously wounded. Facing disgrace and a court-martial, he deserted in a reckless attempt to find Mary in the uncharted wilderness. From this dramatic opening the storm of conflict intensifies, and the scene shifts to Montana, where history was in the making as the Army launched an all-out campaign against the Sioux hostiles - a campaign that culminated in General Custer's final stand in the battle of the Little Big Horn."-- Provided by publisher. 20210428. Black Hills War, 1876-1877 Fiction. Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 Fiction. Large type books. Western fiction.