Explore "The Camp Fire Girls on the Edge of the Desert" by Margaret Vandercook on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The three girls and Mr. Simpson were riding slowly across the Arizona sands toward the neighborhood of the Little Colorado River.
It was true they were only on an exploring expedition, for they had solemnly promised not to enter the region of the Painted Desert nor one of the Petrified Forests until the others could be with them, even if they should reach the borders.