Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman
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In 1874, when Martha Summerhayes came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory, 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, 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," which also failed to appreciate that "'lieutenants' wives needed quite as much as colonels’ wives." In fact, Martha had only a short time to enjoy her new quar...
Chapters (40)
- VANISHED ARIZONA
- Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman
- TO MY SON HARRY SUMMERHAYES WHO SHARED THE VICISSITUDES OF MY LIFE IN ARIZONA, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
- Preface
- VANISHED ARIZONA
- CHAPTER I. GERMANY AND THE ARMY
- CHAPTER II. I JOINED THE ARMY
- CHAPTER III. ARMY HOUSE-KEEPING
- CHAPTER IV. DOWN THE PACIFIC COAST
- CHAPTER V. THE SLUE
- CHAPTER VI. UP THE RIO COLORADO
- CHAPTER VII. THE MOJAVE DESERT
- CHAPTER VIII. LEARNING HOW TO SOLDIER
- CHAPTER IX. ACROSS THE MOGOLLONS
- CHAPTER X. A PERILOUS ADVENTURE
- CHAPTER XI. CAMP APACHE
- CHAPTER XII. LIFE AMONGST THE APACHES
- CHAPTER XIII. A NEW RECRUIT
- CHAPTER XIV. A MEMORABLE JOURNEY
- CHAPTER XV. FORDING THE LITTLE COLORADO
- CHAPTER XVI. STONEMAN'S LAKE
- CHAPTER XVII. THE COLORADO DESERT
- CHAPTER XVIII. EHRENBERG ON THE COLORADO
- CHAPTER XIX. SUMMER AT EHRENBERG
- CHAPTER XX. MY DELIVERER
- CHAPTER XXI. WINTER IN EHRENBERG
- CHAPTER XXII. RETURN TO THE STATES
- CHAPTER XXIII. BACK TO ARIZONA
- CHAPTER XXIV. UP THE VALLEY OF THE GILA
- CHAPTER XXV. OLD CAMP MACDOWELL
- CHAPTER XXVI. A SUDDEN ORDER
- CHAPTER XXVII. THE EIGHTH FOOT LEAVES ARIZONA
- CHAPTER XXVIII. CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA
- CHAPTER XXIX. CHANGING STATION
- CHAPTER XXX. FORT NIOBRARA
- CHAPTER XXXI. SANTA FE
- CHAPTER XXXII. TEXAS
- CHAPTER XXXIII. DAVID'S ISLAND
- APPENDIX.
- NANTUCKET ISLAND, June 1910.
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