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•  An Officer's Wife in New Mexico by Josephine Clifford, from 1870

Following is a first-person report of army life in New Mexico, as it was for an army officer's wife in 1870. This report is transcribed from an article in the "Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine" of 1870, published in San Francisco. The article was written by Mrs. Josephine Clifford in the late 1860's.

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