Description: I COMBINE SHIPPING $1.50 per book. FREE SHIPPING for orders over $60. Send books to your check-out cart. E-Bay will automatically adjust shipping costs.PACKAGING & SHIPPING RULES: 1. Individual books Under $18.00 are shipped in padded poly envelopes. 2. Individual books Over $18.00 are shipped in a poly envelope inside a box. 3. Buy Three or more books and the order is shipped in a box.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LISTING: 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 dozen army posts, the heart of this book concerns her experiences during the 1870s in Arizona, where (as Dan L. Thrapp observes in his introduction) the harsh climate and perennial natural inconveniences from rattlesnakes to cactus thorns and white desperadoes, all made it] a less than desirable posting for the married man and his wife. First privately printed in 1908, Vanished Arizona was so well-received that in 1910 Mrs. Summerhayes prepared a new edition (reprinted here), which was published in 1911, the year of her death. Among the essential primary records of the frontier-military West, the book retains its place securely because of the narrative skill of the author, her delight in life--all life, including even, or perhaps principally, army life and people--and because it is such a joy to read.
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Location: Livonia, Michigan
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Book Title: Vanished Arizona
MPN: Does Not Apply
Item Length: 8in.
Vintage: No
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.9in.
Features: Illustrated
Topic: American History, American Indian Wars, Army, Combat, Memoir, Military History, True Military Stories
Subjects: History & Military
Item Width: 5in.
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Intended Audience: Adults
Modified Item: No
Subject: History
Publication Year: 1979
Literary Movement: Does Not Apply
Illustrator: Unknown
Era: 1800s
Author: Martha Summerhayes
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, War & Combat, Biography & Autobiography
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 341 Pages
