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CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA.
A portion of our regiment was ordered to Oregon, to join General Howard, who was conducting the Bannock Campaign, so I remained that summer in San Francisco, to await my husband's return.
I could not break away from my Arizona habits.

I wore only white dresses, partly because I had no others which were in fashion, partly because I had become imbued with a profound indifference to dress.
"They'll think you're a Mexican," said my New England aunt (who regarded all foreigners with contempt).

"Let them think," said I; "I almost wish I were; for, after all, they are the only people who understand the philosophy of living.

Look at the tired faces of the women in your streets," I added, "one never sees that sort of expression down below, and I have made up my mind not to be caught by the whirlpool of advanced civilization again." Added to the white dresses, I smoked cigarettes, and slept all the afternoons.