The trip to the historical society did yield a few tidbits, including the information that the Wilcoxes had established their homestead in 1877, long before Arizona was a state and before the railroad even got to Flagstaff, but then moved into a series of five houses built on adjoining lots on Leroux Street in 1883. They’d begun as sheep ranchers, but later expanded into cattle ranching and lumber. And, unlike a lot of people in the boom and bust Wild West of the late 1800s, they’d always prospered, had always seemed to know when to invest and when to divest.
Danica thought that sounded as if they’d had someone like her cousin Lucas around, someone whose magical talent was luck, or at least a shrewd understanding of the financial markets. But interesting as that one piece of information m
