In the Arizona Territory in 1868, thirteen-year-old Charlotte, after escaping from a stagecoach being attacked by Indians, finds shelter and is befriended by an elderly Pima Indian woman who
helps her gain a new sense of herself and her abilities to survive in a newland.After thirteen-year-old Charlotte escapes an Indian attack on her family's stagecoach in 1868, she learns to
survive in the strange new land of the Arizona Territory with the help of an aging Indian woman