Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0803291051 ISBN13: 9780803291058 Release Date: April 1979 Publisher: Bison Books Length: 341 Pages Weight: 0.90 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0" 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 quarters, for in June her husband's regiment was ordered to Arizona, "that dreaded and then unknown land." Although Martha Summerhayes's recollections span a quarter of a century and life at a