Huachuca Books available now! Five compact books from Tumbleweed Forts days

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 Huachuca Books are (1) Ride West to Fort Huachuca, (2) Water Rescue at the Desert Oasis, (3) Huachuca Drones into the Atomic Cloud, (4) The New Girl Chases Dust Devils, and (5) The Big Dig for Canyon Gold. The titles identify each book’s most important episode. Every book stands on its own, but each also connects to the others by following the same family and friends over several years.

Each book is about 130 pages long, with the slightly larger 14-point type helpful to many younger readers – and others. If you’d like all the stories of the Huachuca Books in one book, your might try the original Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat. Tumbleweed Forts is about 400 pages, with the relatively common 12-point type size.

All the books soon will be available at the Sierra Vista Public Library. They’re also for sale at Amazon.com. Each Huachuca Book is just under $10. Tumbleweed Forts, with all the stories, is $16.99.

Ride West to Fort Huachuca
https://www.amazon.com/Ride-West-Fort-Huachuca-Books/dp/B0C2S71DPZ/

Water Rescue at the Desert Oasis
https://www.amazon.com/Water-Rescue-Desert-Oasis-Huachuca/dp/B0C2S22YF1/

Huachuca Drones into the Atomic Cloud
https://www.amazon.com/Huachuca-Drones-into-Atomic-Cloud/dp/B0C2SD23Q8/

The New Girl Chases Dust Devils
https://www.amazon.com/New-Girl-Chases-Dust-Devils/dp/B0C2S71RJW/

The Big Dig for Canyon Gold
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Dig-Canyon-Gold-Huachuca/dp/B0C2RX97WJ/

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Tumbleweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat
https://www.amazon.com/Tumbleweed-Forts-Adventures-Arizona-1960-63/dp/B09MYWXX3P/

The Huachuca Books are about the many happy surprises a boy can find in a desert fort full of life. The stories also reveal how an Army brat clings to a sense of home when his address keeps changing and his father is ordered away.

Fort Huachuca was the fifth Army post of Frank’s childhood, and the first post he never wanted to leave. Here at age ten, he was best friends with Flavio, who saved his life from deep waters and helped him hunt for Huachuca Canyon gold. Here too, Frank took a liking to Emily, a captain’s daughter who chased dust devils and spelled well.

As his father tested drones and his mother kept the family together, Frank discovered that the friendships and vastness of Fort Huachuca made it the perfect playground. Then in 1963, when his father received orders for Vietnam and told the family it was time to move again, Frank was so alarmed that he wrote President Kennedy to ask that the orders be canceled.

If you’ve read Tumbleweed Forts, you’ve already read the stories in the new Huachuca Books. But if you know a youngster or even an oldster who’d like the stories in a shorter form, you might recommend the Huachuca Books.