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Author:

Cobb, Thomas, 1947-

Title:

Shavetail : a novel / / Thomas Cobb.

Edition:

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

Publisher:

Scribner,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

369 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--Army--Military life--19th century--Fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--Arizona--Fiction.
Young men--Fiction.
Arizona--Fiction.--To 1912--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Western stories.

Summary:

Fleeing a shameful past, seventeen-year-old Ned Thorne joins the U.S. Army and, in 1871, is sent to the dangerous Arizona territories, where he joins his captain and a ragtag troop in the search for a missing woman supposedly kidnapped by the Apache.

Indexed by:

PW 11/26/2007.
LJ 12/01/2007.
Bklst 02/15/2008.
Kirkus 01/15/2008.

ISBN:

1416561196
9781416561194

LCCN:

2008297218

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