[Gutenberg 39599] • The Little Colonel in Arizona
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- Authors
- Johnston, Annie F.
- Publisher
- L. C. Page & Company
- Tags
- indians of north america -- juvenile fiction , childrens , western stories , boardinghouses -- juvenile fiction , classics , friendship -- juvenile fiction , arizona -- description and travel -- juvenile fiction , ambition -- juvenile fiction , ranch life -- west (u.s.) -- juvenile fiction
- Date
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.53 MB
- Lang
- en
The land around old Camelback mountain near Phoenix is the setting for this story. Joyce and the Ware family have made a new home, and Joyce, especially, is having a difficult time making the adjustment to the "loneliness" of the Arizona desert. That is, until an invalid at Lee's Ranch tells her the "Legend of Camelback Mountain." That tale in itself, renamed "In the Desert of Waiting" would later become one of Annie Fellows Johnston's most popular little books. A letter from Joyce to the Little Colonel brings about her visit to Arizona, and her first real taste of romance in the person of the handsome and personable Phil Tremont. Will he fit the princely mantel suggested by the Three Weavers? Many lessons are given in this book, the most memorable being "the school of the bees" and the legend of Alaka and the lost turquoises. We also meet for the first time in depth the sweet and entertaining Mary Ware, who will play such an important role in many of the future stories.
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