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.