Child of the Fighting Tenth : On the Frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers EPUB
by the late Forrestine C. Hooker
Edited by Steve Wilson
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This memoir by Forrestine Cooper Hooker details her childhood and young adulthood in the midst of the frontier cavalry.
Hooker's father, Charles Cooper, was an officer in the Tenth U.S.
Cavalry, one of two regiments with black troops, known as the Buffalo Soldiers, commanded by white officers.
Hooker's stories capture the drama of growing up in the frontier army, the Indian wars on the plains, the Geronimo campaign in the Southwest and Mexico, her love for the regiment and the Buffalo Soldiers, their admiration for her, and even her lost love for a dashing young cavalry officer.
Her narrative is by turns compelling, charming, humorous, and warm.
As Laura Ingalls Wilder depicted farm life on the frontier, so Forrestine Cooper Hooker depicts army life.
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:20/11/2003
- ISBN:9780190289805
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:20/11/2003
- ISBN:9780190289805