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Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Second Edition (Paperback, Special edition, A Bison Classic Edition)
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Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Second Edition (Paperback, Special edition, A Bison Classic Edition)
Series: Bison Classic Editions
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When Martha Summerhayes (1844–1926) came as a bride to Fort
Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she “saw not much in those
first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining
swords,” but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to
intrude. Remonstrating with her husband, Jack Wyder Summerhayes,
that she had only three rooms and a kitchen instead of “a whole
house,” she was informed that “women are not reckoned in at all
in the War Department.” Although Martha
Summerhayes’s recollections span a quarter of a century and
recount life at a dozen army posts, the heart of this book concerns
her experiences during the 1870s in Arizona, where the harsh
climate, rattlesnakes, cactus thorns, white desperadoes, and other
inconveniences all made for a less-than-desirable posting for the
Summerhayeses. First printed in 1908, Vanished Arizona is
Summerhayes’s memoir of her years as a military wife as her
husband’s Eighth Regiment conducted Gen. George Crook’s
expedition against the Apaches. It was so well received that she
became an instant celebrity and the book a timeless classic. The
book retains its place securely among the essential primary records
of the frontier-military West because of the narrative skill of the
author and her delight in life.
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