Forrestine C. Hooker
Forrestine Cooper Hooker (1867 - 1932) was the daughter of Charles Lawrence Cooper, a white lieutenant serving with the black 10th Cavalry. Forrestine grew up in the army, living in the army posts in which her father served in Fort Sill, Texas, Kansa
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Forrestine Cooper Hooker (1867 - 1932) was the daughter of Charles Lawrence Cooper, a white lieutenant serving with the black 10th Cavalry. Forrestine grew up in the army, living in the army posts in which her father served in Fort Sill, Texas, Kansas and Arizona. She wrote nine books for children, of which Star, the Story of an Indian Pony is the one with most horse content. Her memoir of life on the frontier, Child of the Fighting Tenth, was published after her death, but besides this memoir she is probably best remembered for her account of the life of Wyatt Earp; told to her by Wyatt Earp, and quite possibly complete with a good degree of inaccuracy on his part!
The date of the first edition of Star has been hard to track down. The National Library of Congress’ first copy is dated 1946. The British Library has a copy dated in 1913, which is certainly possible given the dates the author was active, but I’m not convinced that an edition would have been published in the UK before the USA. From a trawling of copies available on the internet, a first USA edition of 1922 seems most likely.
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