A Distant Trumpet Social Concerns

This Study Guide consists of approximately 5 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Distant Trumpet.

A Distant Trumpet Social Concerns

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A Distant Trumpet dramatizes the federal government's treatment of the Indians in the Southwest by examining the conscience and idealism of a young lieutenant of the 1880s. When in the final pages of the book the lieutenant refuses a medal of honor and resigns his commission because his loyal Indian scout has been exiled to Florida and redress is said to be impossible, Horgan makes his final statement about the unfairness of that policy.

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