Bugles in the Afternoon (Annotated)

Bugles in the Afternoon is Haycox's darkly burnished cavalry novel of the northern plains, a romance of wounded honor moving toward the historical catastrophe of the Little Bighorn. Through Kern Shafter, a former officer reduced to the ranks, the book joins private grievance to national myth, setting desire, rivalry, and military ritual against the brittle confidence of Custer's Seventh Cavalry. H...