| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4 | The History Cooperative

Fanny Dunbar Corbusier: Recollections of Her Army Life, 1869–1908. Edited by Patricia Y. Stallard. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xix + 348 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar: The Memoirs of William Henry Corbusier, 1844–1930. Edited by Robert Wooster. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
The romance between William Henry Corbusier and Fanny Dunbar Corbusier could inspire a slew of fiction writers: he, a contract surgeon with the Union Army who grew up in New York and gold rush era California; she, a southern child of the genteel slave-owning class, six years his senior. Beginning with their marriage in Reconstruction Louisiana in 1869, the Corbusiers would be stationed at dozens of military posts and Indian reservations across the West and the Great Lakes, perform two tours of duty in the Philippines during its insurrection years, and would live to see their grown sons serve in World War I. Alternating between employment with the army and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dr. Corbusier proved, like his wife, to be a prolific writer. Through almost a half-century of marriage and military service in which the demands of the latter often intruded on the needs of the former, the Corbusiers witnessed first-hand the enormous transformation of the U. S. Army from a frontier constabulary to a global superpower.	. . .

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