Clarion's Call

by Robert Vaughan and Ralph Compton

Book Overview

After receiving his honorable discharge from the Army, Quinn Pendarrow meets an aspiring young artist and her father. He vows to protect them on this dangerous frontier, but he's also been called to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451202929
• ISBN13: 9780451202925
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

He truly writes exciting books. Also try William Johnstone.

WESTERN HISTORY THROUGH FACT AND FICTION

Robert Vaughan has been writing solid books for more than 20 years with his latest series of books on HAWKE, being one of the more interesting of recent times. Mr. Vaughan is a retired U.S. Army officer who could have served in the Army of the plains back in the times of which he writes. I first read this book back in 2001 when it was issued and have done so a couple times since. Anyone enjoying good western fiction, a somewhat dying art these days, will welcome and appreciate the art of Robert Vaughan. He also writes under the pen name K.C. McKenna too. This present book was done at the bequest of the Ralph Compton estate, a somewhat change in direction from other writings of the late Compton, as those dealt with either western trail drives or gunfighter novels. With the focus of this book being the 1876 Montana campaign, the last as it turned out for Custer, against the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe. The book is somewhat fact filled while being at the same time intertwined with a fictional backdrop of an acclaimed artist, P.G. McKenzie, and his daughter going west to capture on canvas, George Catlin style, the wanning days of the plains tribes. Growing out of this fictional account is the story of the artist's daughter, Kate an artist herself, and one recently resigned 7th Cavalry officer, Quinn Pendarrow. Along the way letters and conversations of those May-June, 1876, days and times are combined with a gripping novel portraying the young Pendarrow's activities with a couple of lovely young women, as well as with the 7th U.S. Cavalry. Those troubling, dangerous days are skillfully written by Mr. Vaughan to such detail that the reader can almost sense the dust of battle and the smell of paint, such as that on a freshly completed canvass by Frederick Remington or Charles Russell. Anyone enjoying a rousing historical western read, especially those as penned by Mr. Vaughan, will be sure to find this book an engrossing read. Though the book may not suit some, the fact remains that this is one book of historical fiction that most knowledgeable western readers will remember with pleasure. Semper Fi.

5 Star is not high Enough

Robert Vaughan does a great job everytime he tells a story. In Clarion's Call, Quinn Pendarrow leaves the army to marry his sweatheart only to find she has found someone else. He reenlists as a civilian member in the Trains Company. Their responsibility is to take supplies for the military to the Dakota territory. He meets a beautiful daughter of an artist who is going to tour the west and paint the Indians. Quinn attempts to protect this beautiful woman even as he is assigned to aid Brig. General G.A.Custer in an upcoming battle that will be the last for some. I have read many accounts of Custer's Last Stand but this was the #1 in my book.