{"product_id":"fanny-dunbar-corbusier-fanny-dunbar-corbusier-9780806135311","title":"Fanny Dunbar Corbusier: Recollections of Her Army Life, 1869-1908","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in Baltimore in 1838, Fanny Dunbar grew up in Louisiana to a family who survived the hardships of the Civil War. An intelligent, sensitive woman, Fanny experienced a radical life change when she met William Henry Corbusier, a Yankee officer and army surgeon. Her memoir recounts their subsequent forty-eight year marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe events of Fanny's life are sometimes amusing but more often dramatic. The Corbusiers moved frequently, but Fanny made moving an art form, often selling all the family possessions to avoid high shipping rates. She learned to cope with primitive living conditions and harsh climates. She raised five sons at posts with no schools. But Fanny took her job as a mother seriously, providing her sons with a broad education and a nurturing home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorbusier's long life and her husband's thirty-nine-year career in the army (recounted in his memoir Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar) allow the reader to experience the period between the Civil War and World War I in totality, including her exceptional memories of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the recollections of two people whose lives played out against a world panorama, Fanny and William's memoirs together provide a rare opportunity to examine events of frontier military life from both male and female perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMrs. Corbusier writes from the unique perspective of a surgeon's wife, and we have a picture not only of an army wife, but of an army wife who saw many different aspects of frontier military life and frontier life in general\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003cb\u003eCharles M. Robinson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eGeneral Crook and the Western Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Good Year to Die: The Story of the Great Sioux War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOf the memoirs penned by wives of nineteenth-century army officers, this is among the best and most detailed. The woman's perspective of events that transpired in the Indian-fighting army is a much needed counterbalance to the male-dominated histories of these same events\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003cb\u003eDarlis Miller\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFanny Dunbar Corbusier\u003c\/b\u003e was the career army wife of officer-surgeon William Henry Corbusier. \u003cb\u003ePatricia Y. Stallard\u003c\/b\u003e, retired federal civil servant and education specialist with the United States Navy Recruiting Command, is the author of \u003ci\u003eGlittering Misery: Dependents of the Indian Fighting Army\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fanny Dunbar Corbusier, Patricia Y. Stallard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080613531X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806135311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 6.26w x 1.01d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2004 pg. 1722","brand":"Fanny Dunbar Corbusier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44522269278463,"sku":"9780806135311","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7abd5fe3-c802-4ac4-a94a-96354e365261.jpg?v=1700156394","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fanny-dunbar-corbusier-fanny-dunbar-corbusier-9780806135311","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}