Bison Classic Editions: Vanished Arizona : Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Second Edition (Paperback)

from ladycato

First published in 1910, Vanished Arizona is a memoir of Mrs. Summerhayes's adventures as an Army wife in the last quarter of the 19th century. Even though they were stationed everywhere from New York to Nevada, the heart of this book focuses on her time in Arizona. Those were definitely her most...

from ladycato

First published in 1910, Vanished Arizona is a memoir of Mrs. Summerhayes's adventures as an Army wife in the last quarter of the 19th century. Even though they were stationed everywhere from New York to Nevada, the heart of this book focuses on her time in Arizona. Those were definitely her most...

from grundlecat

Outstanding personal memoir of Army life on the civilian side. As an Army veteran who has served in Arizona myself, I could empathize with some of the horrors of marching on foot through Arizona in summer and early autumn. I recommend using an historical atlas of Arizona to get an idea of the amo...

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Vanished Arizona is the autobiographical account of Martha (Mattie) Durham Summerhayes who was born to a prosperous New England family in a spacious, comfortable home on Nantucket Island in 1846. She married handsome John (Jack) Summerhayes, a Civil War veteran and a lieutenant in the United Stat...

from samsheep

An autobiographical account of life as an army wife in the 1870s. Martha S accompanies her husband on his postings to Arizona which at that time was on the frontier of civilised life. A fascinating first hand account of how they lived and coped with the unbearable heat in the days before air cond...