Oc­to­ber 11, 1870, War­saw, New York.

Ju­ly 28, 1957, Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia.

Brinenstool earned a bus­i­ness de­gree, and 1895 in moved with his wife to Los An­ge­les. He first worked as a jour­nal­ist, but lat­er be­came a free­lanc­er, writ­ing po­e­try, and pub­lishi­ng ar­ti­cles in Hunt­er-Trader, Sun­set, Fron­tier Times, Out­door Life, Win­ners of the West, and other mag­a­zines. He is al­so known for bi­o­graph­ies of the In­di­an lead­ers Cra­zy Horse, Red Cloud, and Dull Knife. His other works in­clude:

• My Peo­ple the Sioux (ed­it­or)
• Fighting In­dian War­riors; True Tales of the Wild Fron­tiers
• Campaigning with Cus­ter and the Nine­teenth Kan­sas Vol­un­teer Cav­al­ry on the Wash­i­ta Cam­paign, 1868-69 (pho­to­graph­er)
• The Boze­man Trail
• Trail Dust of a Mav­er­ick (New York: Dodd, Mead and Com­pa­ny, 1914)
• A Troop­er with Cus­ter, 1925
• Fighting Red Cloud’s War­ri­ors: True Tales of In­di­an Days When the West Was Young, 1926
• Hoofprints of a Cowboy and U. S. Ranger (Cald­well, Id­a­ho, Cax­ton Print­ers, 1941)
• Wyoming Cat­tle Trails: His­tory of the Mi­gra­tion of Ore­gon-Raised Herds to Mid-Western Mark­ets (Cald­well, Id­a­ho, Cax­ton Print­ers, 1948)
• Troopers with Cus­ter, 1952

1. Sunshine Song