With Their Own Blood: A Saga of Southwestern Pioneers
His wife dead,Elisa Green Pennington gathered up his brood of twelve young children in and left Texas for California,the promised land. The Penningtons could not have imagined what the untamed frontier had in store for them. After a difficult trek across West Texas and New Mexico,they were forced by sicknesses and circumstances to settle in the newly claimed Gadsden Purchase - present-day southern Arizona - where members of the clan and their descendants would remain into Arizona's statehood ye