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100 1 _aKing, Charles,
_d1844-1933
245 1 4 _aThe colonel's daughter
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-04
508 _aBrian Coe, Thiers Halliwell (cover image restoration), Quentin Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"The colonel''s daughter: or, Winning his spurs" by Charles King is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set on the Arizona frontier, it entwines military life and romance, centering on adjutant John Truscott, impulsive young lieutenant Arthur Glenham, and Grace Pelham, the colonel’s daughter, amid garrison routines, social maneuvering, and rising Apache unrest. Expect brisk soldierly realism, sharp drawing-room tensions, and a quietly forming love triangle pressed by the threat of war. The opening of the novel paints Camp Sandy in blistering heat, introducing the disciplined, reserved Truscott; the warm-hearted, wealthy Glenham; and the talkative, factional garrison community awaiting the arrival of Colonel Pelham’s wife and the much-admired Grace. Gossip swirls about Grace and Glenham, while Truscott’s integrity, past clashes with meddling superiors, and quiet generosity are established when he sacrifices his own trip so Glenham can attend the Prescott festivities. At the Prescott ball, Grace’s beauty captivates all, her mother manages access, and local rivalries flare, even as Truscott is delayed by urgent duty. During the night, alarms spread that the Tonto Apaches have left the reservation; bugles sound, officers are summoned, and Glenham, having just been gently refused by Grace, is swept toward field service. In parallel, Truscott rides alone through the mountains, discovers the murdered mail-carrier and a ranch in flames, and pushes on, signaling the outbreak that will drive the story from ballroom to battlefield. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPhiladelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1882
653 _aSoldiers -- Fiction
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
653 _aUnited States. Army -- Officers -- Fiction
653 _aArizona -- History -- To 1912 -- Fiction
700 1 _aHarmer, Alexander Francis,
_d1856-1925
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn5fbu&seq=11
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76813
999 _c117538
_d117538