Martha Summerhayes was a respectable Victorian lady when she left
civilized society behind, in 1874, to follow her cavalry-officer
husband West, to the Wyoming Territory and then to unknown and
inaccessible Arizona. Written "at the urgent and ceaseless request"
of her children and first published in 1908, this compulsively
readable account of her life on the frontier is a unique document
of the American exploration and settling of the West, offering a
little-heard woman's perspective on an historical era that
continues to echo in contemporary American society. From the
deprivations of her kitchen-where she has no choice but to make do
with army pots and pans designed for cooking for dozens-to
terrifying encounters with wildlife, attacks by Indians, and the
challenge of giving birth alone, Summerhayes' indomitable spirit
and sense of adventure shines through.
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