3-15-08 Shavetail by Thomas Cobb - Fiction

3 - This book is mainly a character study of a private, a lieutenant, and a captain in the United States army. It is set in 1871 in Arizona when it was still only a territory. Private Ned Thorne joins the army at 17 to escape his past in Connecticut. The reader gets to experience the discovery and harshness of Arizona through his eyes and the eyes of Lieutenant Anthony Austin, a gentle soul who serves under his best friend, Captain Robert Franklin. Because this is a character study it is slow moving. Cobb dedicates each chapter to one character and tells the story through his particular point of view. All in all it was an interesting book, but a little slower than I prefer.