It Was Arranged For Mrs. Bailey, Who Was
To Spend The Summer With Her Parents At Fort Whipple, To Make The
Trip At The Same Time, As Our Road To Camp MacDowell Took Us
Through Fort Whipple.
There were provided two ambulances with six
mules each, two baggage-wagons, an escort of six calvarymen fully
armed, and a guide.
Lieutenant Bailey was to accompany his wife
on the trip.
I was genuinely sorry to part with Major Worth, but in the
excitement and fatigue of breaking up our home, I had little time
to think of my feelings. My young child absorbed all my time.
Alas! for the ignorance of young women, thrust by circumstances
into such a situation! I had miscalculated my strength, for I had
never known illness in my life, and there was no one to tell me
any better. I reckoned upon my superbly healthy nature to bring
me through. In fact, I did not think much about it; I simply got
ready and went, as soldiers do.
I heard them say that we were not to cross the Mogollon range,
but were to go to the north of it, ford the Colorado Chiquito at
Sunset Crossing, and so on to Camp Verde and Whipple Barracks by
the Stoneman's Lake road. It sounded poetic and pretty. Colorado
Chiquito, Sunset Crossing, and Stoneman's Lake road! I thought to
myself, they were prettier than any of the names I had heard in
Arizona.
CHAPTER XIV
A MEMORABLE JOURNEY
How broken plunged the steep descent!
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