Virginia Mercier
ASIN: B01INT0ZSQ
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 722
When her parents were both deceased, Phoebe Hunt had moved from New York to live with her father’s cousin in New Jersey. Then his daughter, who had married the Secretary of Arizona Territory, had written and asked her to join them in Prescott.
Phoebe had heard stories about the West, and some of them horrified her, especially the stories of Indians attacking. At the same time, though, as the only surviving child of Frank and Elizabeth Hunt, she had no reason not to have an adventure. With the War between the States over and the country reunified, she got on a train and make her way to Arizona Territory with relative ease.
Now that she was here with Margaret and Richard McCormick, she was glad she’d made the move. The springs and summers were dry and warm, except for the monsoon season when heavy rains and violent wind storms which blew up walls of dirt, and the winters were barely even ...