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1 online resource (176 pages) |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Introduction; Dedication; Contents; Preface; I. Germany and the Army; II. I Joined the Army; III. Army House-Keeping; IV. Down the Pacific Coast; V. The Slue; VI. Up the Rio Colorado; VII. The Mojave Desert; VIII. Learning how to Soldier; IX. Across the Mogollons; X.A Perilous Adventure; XI. Camp Apache; XII. Life Amongst the Apaches; XIII. A New Recruit; XIV. A Memorable Journey; XV. Fording the Little Colorado; XVI. Stoneman's Lake; XVII. The Colorado Desert; XVIII. Ehrenberg on the Colorado; XIX. Summer at Ehrenberg; XX. My Deliverer; XXI. Winter in Ehrenberg. |
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XXII. Return to the StatesXXIII. Back to Arizona; XXIV. Up the Valley of the Gila; XXV. Old Camp Macdowell; XXVI. A Sudden Order; XXVII. The Eighth Foot Leaves Arizona; XXVIII. California And NEVADA; XXIX. Changing Station; XXX. Fort Niobrara; XXXI. Santa Fa; XXXII. Texas; XXXIII. David's Island; Appendix; Back Cover. |
Summary |
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 thi. |
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Subject |
United States. Army -- Military life.
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United States. Army. |
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Army spouses -- Arizona -- Biography.
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Army spouses. |
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Arizona. |
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Biographies.
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Arizona -- Description and travel.
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Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
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New Southwest. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Summerhayes, Martha. Vanished Arizona : Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Second Edition. Nebraska : UNP - Bison Books, ©2014 9780803248687 |
ISBN |
9780803266919 (electronic book) |
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080326691X (electronic book) |
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