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Author:

Hooker, Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper), 1867-1932.

Title:

Child of the Fighting Tenth : on the frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers / Forrestine C. Hooker ; edited by Steve Wilson.

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xiv, 272 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Hooker, Forrestine C.--(Forrestine Cooper),--1867-1932--Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.
Children of military personnel--West (U.S.)--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--Juvenile literature.
United States.--Cavalry, 10th--Cavalry, 10th--Juvenile literature.
United States.--Army--History--History--19th century--Juvenile literature.
African American soldiers--West (U.S.)--History--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895--Juvenile literature.
West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890--Juvenile literature.
West (U.S.)--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Wilson, Steve, 1943-

Notes:

Originally published in 2003 by Oxford University Press. This edition contains a new preface by the editor. Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-263) and index.

Contents:

Father in the Civil War, marriage, and off to Ship Island -- Friends and memories of Ship Island -- The Tenth U.S. Cavalry and assignment to Indian Territory -- We reach Camp Supply -- Off to Fort Sill, heart of the Indian Country -- Life at Fort Sill in its earliest years -- The long train ride to Texas -- Arrival at Fort Concho at last -- Life was never dull at Fort Concho -- Captain Nolan and tragedy on the Staked Plains -- Philadelphia for school and return to Fort Sill -- Fort Concho, graduation, and off to Fort Davis -- The Tenth Cavalry moves to Arizona, we go to Fort Grant -- We join Father at Camp Bonita -- Word comes of Captain Crawford in Mexico -- The Geronimo campaign, Lieutenant Clarke, and General Miles -- The capture of Chief Mangus -- Friends and memories of Fort Apache.

Summary:

A memoir detailing the frontier childhood and young adulthood of the daughter of Charles Cooper, one of the officers in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry.

ISBN:

0806140801 (pbk.)
9780806140803 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)676727060

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)