General Charles King. Lanier of the Cavalry; Or, A Week's Arrest. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1909.

First edition; 241 pages; 7-1/2 by 5 inches; illustrated with three black-and-white plates by Frank McKernan.

A Western military novel set at a U.S. cavalry post in Wyoming, Lanier of the Cavalry follows Lieutenant Robert “Bob” Lanier as his honor, reputation, and romantic prospects are tested during a week under arrest. King drew on his own long military career to depict the social world of the frontier Army—its officers, rivalries, regulations, gossip, courtship, and codes of honor.

Charles King (1844–1933) was a West Point graduate, U.S. Army officer, and prolific author of military and frontier fiction. He served in the post–Civil War cavalry under General George Crook and was wounded during the Indian Wars before turning increasingly to writing. His firsthand experience gave his many Army and Western novels an unusual degree of period detail and authenticity.

Published in 1909, Lanier of the Cavalry was among King's final works of fiction and is representative of the cavalry and frontier-post novels for which he became widely known.

Illustrated with three plates by Frank McKernan.

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