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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman (May 11, 2011)

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Vanished Arizona: Reflections of the Army Life of a New England Woman was re-published as a new edition in 1911 – the year that Martha Summerhayes died – due mainly to the remarkable reception that her first edition received when the author first completed the memoir in 1908.

Outlining mainly her years spent in Arizona – some of the most challenging times that the New England army officer’s wife had to cope with – the book talks also about her initial introduction to army life in 1874, when she simply faced a few inconveniences in Fort Russell in the Wyoming Territories, and takes us through the difficult period when the army officers and their families were ordered to move to Arizona.

This unique and extremely detailed presentation of an important time in American history is not only well-written, but extremely comprehensive. Martha Summerhayes was a woman of excellent upbringing who was used to the much gentler life of New England in the mid-1800s. From that luxurious existence, however, she found her life shifting to having to sleep outside in the desert due to the scorching heat of Arizona, while finding herself needing to look out for rattle snakes and scorpions.

In those conditions, she still managed to take care of her newborn baby and find solutions to even the most unique and surprisingly troublesome problems of daily life in a region that used to be wild and untamed. In fact, life was made even harder by the presence of white desperados and the constant need to move from one camp to another, enduring long distance journeys during the hottest days of summer.

Vanished Arizona will take you on an extraordinary adventure through some of the most fascinating areas where Martha Summerhayes and her husband made their way, while also offering a detailed account of extreme historical significance regarding life in the US army during that time period.
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