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Charles King
Book List in Order: 40 titles
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Mama's Boy
- Apr-1992
- / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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When the Harrow family is murdered in their home, Winston Churchill Harrow--a mute Trinidadian boy adopted by the family who witnessed the slaughter from the linen closet--is the police's only hope for solving the case. Reprint....
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The Deserter
- Sep-2005
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When the morning sun dawns on the picturesque valley in which the cantonment nestled but the day before, it illumines an almost deserted village, and brings no joy to the souls of some twoscore of embittered civilians who had arrived only the day pre...
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Tonio, Son of the Sierras
- Apr-2008
- / General Fiction
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"Does it never rain here?" asked the Latest Arrival, with sudden shift of the matter under discussion. "How is that, Bentley?" said the officer addressed to the senior present, the surgeon. "You've been here longest." "Don't know, I'm sure," was the ...
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Captain Blake
- Jul-2008
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Captain Close, And Sergeant Croesus; Two Novels
- Jul-2008
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Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
- Feb-2009
- / General Fiction
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Charles King (1844-1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook. In 1898, he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and sailed to the Philippines during the Spani...
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The Iron Brigade
- Apr-2012
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An exciting Civil War novel by a former serving soldier
For those who enjoy the fiction of the American Civil War, this book by Charles King will not disappoint. It concerns the 'Iron Brigade,' the black hatted soldiers from the mid-west who ... -
Laramie or, The Queen of Bedlam
- Aug-2012
- / General Fiction
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Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. King was the son of Civil War general Rufus King, grandson of Columbia University president Charles King, and great grandson of Rufus King, who was one the signers of the United Sta...
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From School to Battle-Field
- Nov-2013
- / General Fiction
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"If there's anything I hate more than a rainy Saturday, call me a tadpole " said the taller of two boys who, with their chins on their arms and their arms on the top of the window-sash, were gazing gloomily out over a dripping world. It was the secon...
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Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life
- Jul-2014
- / General Fiction
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Excerpt from Campaigning With Crook and Stories of Army Life
Egan and Dewees, Bache and Hunter, have been called from the ranks in which they won such honor, and.
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Starlight Ranch, and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
- Jan-2016
- / General Fiction
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We were crouching round the bivouac fire, for the night was chill, and we were yet high up along the summit of the great range. We had been scouting through the mountains for ten days, steadily working southward, and, though far from our own station,...
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An Apache Princess
U nder the willows at the edge of the pool a young girl sat daydreaming, though the day was nearly done. All in the valley was wrapped in shadow, though the cliffs and turrets across the stream were resplendent in a radiance of slanting sunshine. Not...
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An Army Wife
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A Daughter Of The Sioux
The major commanding looked up from the morning report and surveyed the post adjutant with something of perturbation, if not annoyance, in his grim, gray eyes. For the fourth time that week had Lieutenant Field requested permission to be absent for s...
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Foes in Ambush
The sun was just going down, a hissing globe of fire and torment. Already the lower limb was in contact with the jagged backbone of the mountain chain that rimmed the desert with purple and gold. Out on the barren, hard-baked flat in front of the cor...
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Found in the Philippines
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From the Ranks
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A Garrison Tangle
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Kitty's Conquest
It was just after Christmas, and discontentedly enough I had left my cosy surroundings in New Orleans, to take a business-trip through the counties on the border-line between Tennessee and northern Mississippi and Alabama. One sunny afternoon I found...
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Lanier of the Cavalry
The sun was sinking low beyond the ford of the foaming Platte. The distant bluffs commanding the broad valley of the Sweetwater stood sharp and clear against the westward skies. The smoke from the camp-fires along the stream rose in misty columns str...
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Marion's Faith
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Ray's Daughter
The long June day was drawing to its close. Hot and strong the slanting sunbeams beat upon the grimy roofs of the train and threw distorted shadows over the sand and sage-brush that stretched to the far horizon. Dense and choking, from beneath the wh...
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A Soldier's Trial
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Sunset Pass, or, Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land
Better take my advice, sir. The road ahead is thick with the Patchies. But you have come through all alone, my friend; why should I not go? I have been stationed among the Apaches for the last five years and have fought them all over Arizona. Surely...
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A Tame Surrender; A Story of the Chicago Strike
Charles King was a 19th century United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He graduated from West Point in 1866 and served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook. During the Philippine-American War, King was placed in command of...
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To The Front
It was graduation day at West Point, and there had been a remarkable scene at the morning ceremonies. In the presence of the Board of Visitors, the full-uniformed officers of the academic and military staff, the august professors and their many assis...
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Trials of a Staff-Officer
Excerpt from Trials of a Staff-Officer Odd experiences fall to the lot of every soldier. Even the subaltern who has spent the quarter of a century since the great surrender in plodding around after a platoon - and such has been the stagnation of prom...
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A Trooper Galahad
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Trumpeter Fred
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...
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Under Fire
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War-Time Wooing
After months of disaster there had come authentic news of victory. All Union-loving men drew a long breath of relief when it was certain that Lee had given up the field and fallen back across the Potomac. The newsboys, yelling through the crowded str...
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Waring's Peril
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A Wounded Name
The stage coach was invisible in a cloud of its own dust as it lurched and rolled along the alkali flats down the valley, and Sancho, the ranch-keeper, could not make out whether any passengers were on top or not. He had brought a fine binocular to b...
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In Spite of Foes; Or, Ten Years' Trial
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