Forrestine Cooper Hooker
1 book
About the Author
Forrestine Cooper Hooker is remembered for bringing firsthand perspective and vivid human detail to the history of the American frontier. In Child of the Fighting Tenth: On the Frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers, she recounts her childhood experiences alongside the soldiers of the famed Tenth Cavalry, offering an intimate view of military life, western communities, and the people who shaped them. Her work preserves an important personal record of the Buffalo Soldiers’ legacy while inviting readers to encounter the frontier through the eyes of someone who lived within its world.
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