A Distant Trumpet Benedict XVI Tom and Vera Claiborne have

Tom and Vera Claiborne have settled at Blencker’s Bridge with a motley assortment of friends

“The Christian imagination…is concerned precisely with the tension

The chief task of cultural history is the morphological understanding and description of the actual

As The Priest: Mystery of Love makes abundantly clear

in understanding we must be men

A Distant Trumpet Benedict XVI Tom and Vera Claiborne haveBy Paul Horgan Historical in substance, romantic in spirit, heroic in scale, A Distant Trumpet is a novel of the American West. At its center is Matthew Carlton Hazard, born in 1857 at Fox Creek, Indiana; raised by his mother after his fathers death in the Battle of Chickamauga; and designated, at the solemn age of seven, by President Abraham Lincoln himself to the Army of the United States. Commissioned in 1880 as second lieutenant of cavalry,