By Forrestine C. Hooker, Steve Wilson
This memoir through Forrestine Cooper Hooker info her formative years and younger maturity in the course of the frontier cavalry. Hooker's father, Charles Cooper, used to be an officer within the 10th U.S. Cavalry, certainly one of regiments with black troops, often called the Buffalo squaddies, commanded by way of white officials. Hooker's tales trap the drama of transforming into up within the frontier military, the Indian wars at the plains, the Geronimo crusade within the Southwest and Mexico, her love for the regiment and the Buffalo infantrymen, their admiration for her, or even her misplaced love for a rushing younger cavalry officer. Her narrative is by way of turns compelling, fascinating, funny, and hot. As Laura Ingalls Wilder depicted farm lifestyles at the frontier, so Forrestine Cooper Hooker depicts military existence.
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Tom held it out to my father. “One of the soldiers in my troop made this for me,” he said. “Take it with you. Many a good fellow has had his hand in that box, Cooper. ” Good-byes were said at the tent door. They never met again. A very vivid and personal incident is associated with that box by myself. It occurred just after we left Fort Hays several days later to journey on to Fort Dodge. In some way a wild pigeon was caught and my father brought it to me. He attached a light cord to one of its legs, allowing a string about six feet with a small loop.
My father lifted my brother to the driver’s seat, and held him so that he could watch. Some of the mounted soldiers galloped their horses ahead until they were within shooting range of the rear herd. We had no fresh beef. As one of the animals toppled clumsily to the ground, my brother grew highly excited. When excited he often stuttered. “See! ” he shrieked at the top of his voice, staring in horror. “No! No! ” I understood and explained. S. Cavalry and Assignment to Indian Territory 49 there a big Newfoundland dog had become our staunch friend.
So from early dawn until we stopped that night and made camp, those buffalo formed a solid wall of brown bodies in front of us. In the morning they had vanished, but as we traveled along that day, we came across what had been a light wagon. It was a total wreck. No horses or human beings were near it. Later in the day we met the owners of the wagon, a man and his wife, who were riding their team. Nothing of any value was in the abandoned wagon, but 62 CHILD OF THE FIGHTING TENTH they gladly climbed into one of the white-topped troop wagons, while their horses were tied to the back of it.