One of the many popular novels written by Charles King, an American soldier and a distinguished and prolific writer. He wrote and edited over 60 books and novels. Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was wounded in the arm forcing his retirement from the regular army.
During this time he became acquainted with Buffalo Bill Cody. King would later write scripts for several of Cody and 's silents films. In , he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and sailed to the Philippines during the Spanish-American War; he also led a brigade during the ensuing Philippine-American War.
Excerpt from West Point Colors Some of my friends in a certain cadet class beset me to write a West Point story; promising me incidents at will, a plot, a name, and a tactical officer for the villain.
Per haps it was because I declined this last sensational detail that they backed out of all the rest, and having given my boat a shove into deep water, left me to row and pilot as best I might.
However, help came from other men, in other classes. I was cheered on in my work, and given story after story, with full leave to use them as I chose; and so it falls out that my book is quite true. Not that all the happenings ever came to any one cadet, or within the bounds of any four years' course. But they have almost all, at some time, been part of somebody's cadet life at West Point. With what men, or in what years, it does not matter: the last decade of the nineteenth century nearly enough covers the whole.
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On November 29, , Army played Navy in front of , fans. Eight days later, the Japanese attacked and the young men who battled each other in that historic game were forced to fight a very different enemy. Bill Busik. Growing up in Pasadena, California, Busik was best friends with a young black man named Jackie, who in would make Major League Baseball history.
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