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> [Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-nugent/signal-smokes-war-drums-feathered-bonnets-against-the-western-sky-new-2/)

[Frank Nugent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-nugent/)

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> [So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-nugent/so-here-they-are-the-dog-faced-soldiers-the-regulars-the-fifty-cents/)

[Frank Nugent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-nugent/)

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## More by Frank Nugent

> [Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-nugent/figure-a-man-s-only-good-for-one-oath-at-a-time-i-took-mine-to-the/)

[Frank Nugent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-nugent/)

> [Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-nugent/signal-smokes-war-drums-feathered-bonnets-against-the-western-sky-new-2/)

[Frank Nugent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-nugent/)

> [So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-nugent/so-here-they-are-the-dog-faced-soldiers-the-regulars-the-fifty-cents/)

[Frank Nugent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-nugent/)

> [Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-nugent/now-tell-me-this-what-would-you-consider-the-greatest-spectator-sport/)

[Frank Nugent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-nugent/)

> [...we still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-nugent/we-still-feel-that-color-is-hard-on-the-eyes-for-so-long-a-picture/)

[Frank Nugent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-nugent/)

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