Vanished Arizona
The recollections of Martha Summerhayes span a quarter of a century and life at a dozen army posts. The heart of this book concerns her experiences during the 1870s in Arizona.
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In 1874, when Martha Summerhayes came as a bride from the coast of Nantucket to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory, she learned the hard facts of army life. Informing 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."
