Tee Army of the Pacific, 1860-1866

Born near Sacramento, Aurora Hunt (1881-1965) attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where she developed a keen interest in the military history of the West. She later studied under prominent Western historian Henry E. Bolton, who encouraged her to write several outstanding books on southwestern history. The Arthur H. Clark Company published The Army of the Pacific as the first volume in its distinguished Frontier Military series. Hunt based her study largely on primary sources, particularly rare territorial newspapers.