As the daughter of a calvary officer, she spent her youth moving from one army post to another with her family.
Jan Cleere Special to the Arizona Daily Star Throughout her youth, Forrestine Cooper moved with her family from one army post to another. When she was born in Philadelphia on March 8, 1867, her father, Charles Laurence Cooper, was a first lieutenant with the 39th Infantry. Her first foray into the field occurred a year after her birth when Charles was sent to Ship Island, Mississippi.
People are also reading… “Buffalo herds were a common sight to my brother, my sister and myself en route with our parents from one frontier garrison to another,” she wrote. “I recollect vividly a buffalo stampede that swept across the prairie towards us ... while the soldiers waited ready to shoot into the herd in case it headed too near our wagons.”
“Often,” she said, “I would climb onto a chair to read some fresh item located near the ceiling, and after I had read it aloud, would turn to see my father’s six-foot, two-inch frame flattened on the floor as he answered my challenge by saying. ‘That’s not new. I read that long ago, but here’s something you have missed.’ Then he would triumphantly read an item located at the junction of the wall and floor.
“At once the order was given to saddle up, and the troop started up the steep side of the canyon, fully armed, and prepared to rescue me from the Apaches. I managed just then to make the cow start down, calling to my father not to help. At Fort Grant, Forrestine met Edwin Hooker, the son of Henry Hooker who owned the Sierra Bonita Ranch in the Sulphur Springs Valley, the largest cattle ranch in Arizona Territory at the time.Forrestine lived on Sierra Bonita Ranch from 1886 until 1903. She was a big part of the ranch’s success as she learned to handle a rope, brand cattle, and eat chuck wagon food with the cowboys when out on the range.
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