Background
Brininstool, Earl Alonzo was born on October 11, 1870 in Warsaw, New York, United States. Son of Jacob James and Ellen (Blossom) Brininstool.
Brininstool, Earl Alonzo was born on October 11, 1870 in Warsaw, New York, United States. Son of Jacob James and Ellen (Blossom) Brininstool.
Public schools and business college.
Reporter, editorial paragrapher Los Angeles Times, 1900-1902. Reporter, special writer Los Angeles Recod, 1903, Los Angeles Examiner, 1904. Wrote daily column, verse and paragraphs, Los Angeles Express, 1905-1914.
Has been free lance writer, since 1915.
Author about 5000 poems on various topics, principally on cowboy and range life. Known for magazine articles and books on the history of the West in connection with the Indian wars and frontier life.
Author: (poems). Sonnets of a Telephone Girl, 1902.
Trail Dust of a Maverick (cowboy poems), 1914. The Bozeman Trail (with Doctor Grace Raymond Hebard), 2 volumes, 1923.
A Trooper With Custer (Frontier Series), 1925. Fighting Red Cloud’s Warriors, 1926.
Campaigning with Custer and the 19th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry (with Doctorate. L. Spotts), 1928.
Capture and Death of Chief Crazy Horse, 1929. Captain Benteen’s Story of the Custer Fight, 1933. The Dull Knife Outbreak at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, 1935.
Major M. A. Reno Vindicated, 1935.
Little Feller (moving picture starring Chic Sale), 1935. The Sioux Ghost Dance War of 1890 in South Dakota, 1951.
Troopers With Custer, 1952. Fighting Indian Warriors, 1953.
Home: 330 North. Poinsettia Place, Los Angeles 36.
Married Estelle R. Owen, September 12, 1893. Children: Merrill O., Ellene B. Moved to Los Angeles, 1895.