The Story of Fort Frayne
Charles King, Jim Gravelyn
As usual with Charles King novels, there is romance mixed with Indian fighting in The Story of Fort Frayne, but for once that is not the primary feature of the plot. The story concentrates on one family with an honored sire who was killed in these same Indian wars a few years before; and now the remainder of his family is back at the same fort and facing a new uprising by the same tribe, this uprising instigated by unscrupulous cowboys with cynical financial motives in mind. The Army, as usual, comes fourth in line in the minds of eastern authorities as far as respect—behind the Interior Department, the Indians, and the cowboys who have many of the elected officials in their pockets... and just in case cut the telegraph lines after sending their side of the story.
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