Moving West

Born in Kansas in 1870, Sharlot was given her name by an uncle who claimed it was of Indian origin. Her earliest memories were of Comanche raids, grasshopper plagues, prairie fires, and of pet buffalo killed by wolves. In 1882 the Hall family crossed the Santa Fe Trail and went on to Arizona. They settled on Lynx Creek near today’s Prescott Valley. It was the final decade of the great western frontier, and it’s memories stayed with Sharlot.

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Sharlot Hall was born at her father's homestead on Prosser Creek, a tributary of the Solomon River in Lincoln County, Kansas (highlighted)

18 years old

Sharlot with her little brother Edward.