Fort Huachuca Army Brat
The world of Tumbleweed Forts, the book
Category: Books
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ARRIVAL AT THE NEW POST, 1960 Due north of Fort Huachuca, we moved down one last, long road, a highway that cut straight through eight miles of next to nothing. The sky was dark, with a bluish hint of dawn. On the roadside, every mile or so, we saw dark, coiled, ribbon-like figures, maybe three…
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Ride West to Fort Huachuca begins in a burning airplane. It’s late 1960, and after two years in Heidelberg, Germany, Master Sergeant Tom Warner and family are flying back to America. The story is told by Frank, one of four sons of the sergeant and Georgiana Warner. The family’s journey is the first episode of…
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In Water Rescue at the Desert Oasis, Frank and his friend Flavio resume the search for gold in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Both boys are sons of Army sergeants. As they hike into Huachuca Canyon, an Apache acorn-gatherer warns, “Gold makes people crazy.” At home, Frank’s brother Mark and neighbor Peter conduct a dazzling electrical experiment…
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Huachuca Drones into the Atomic Cloud moves from young Frank Warner’s home in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, to the Nevada Test Site, and back again to the fort in 1962. Frank’s father, a master sergeant who is developing drones for the Army, takes a group of Fort Huachuca soldiers to Nevada to fly three drones through…
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A new face joins Frank’s circle of fifth-grade friends in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Emily is the new girl in class. The first time Frank sees her, she’s running after a swirling cloud called a dust devil. As it turns out, Emily dances and spells well too. The New Girl Chases Dust Devils also follows other…
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For two years, young Frank Warner has heard about the lost gold in Huachuca Canyon, Arizona. Now, in early 1963, a serious project begins to dig up the treasure. The whole story is in The Big Dig for Canyon Gold. Army Private Robert Jones, who says he saw stacks of gold bars in an underground…
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The five books of the Huachuca Books series are episodes excerpted and adapted for younger readers from Frank Warner’s 2021 memoir, Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat. Most of the stories are about growing up in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, where Frank’s soldier father was sent to experiment with drones in the early 1960s. The…
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By Frank Warner I’ve been looking for old photographs of Colonel Johnston School in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Now a fellow Army brat has sent me a picture his father took from the sky. David Penman of Grand Forks, North Dakota, says his father, Staff Sgt. Keith Penman, snapped this photograph from an airplane that flew…
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What is “the voice” in the book Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat? Elizabeth Wrozek, curator of the Henry Hauser Museum in Sierra Vista, asked that great question in the June 15th discussion and book-signing at the museum. My simple answer: The boy is narrating the story as it happens. He knows only what…
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Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat was the subject of a public forum June 15, 2022, at the Henry Hauser Museum in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Elizabeth Wrozek, museum curator, examined the book with me and then brought the public into the discussion. — Frank Warner Elizabeth Wrozek (left) invites Sierra Vista residents, Army brats…
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