Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker

Born in 1867 and known as Forrestine C. Hooker, or Forrestine Cooper Hooker, she was an American writer associated with Western-themed fiction and historical storytelling. Library and catalog records connect her with works including The Long Dim Trail, and modern reference databases list her as writing in English.

Although detailed biographical information is hard to pin down, her surviving publications suggest a strong interest in the American West, travel, and frontier life. That gives her work a clear period flavor, with stories shaped by landscape, endurance, and the mythology of the trail.

She died in 1932. Today, she is remembered mainly through book-history references and public-domain library records, which have helped keep her writing available to new readers.