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	Martha Summerhayes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martha Summerhayes became convinced that the desert was filled with terrors; partly because of her upper class upbringing, she was not used to using snake protection before sleep, witnessing dogs being eaten to their deaths by these animals, and other experiences.
		Martha Summerhayes by this point began to think that the military had better accommodations for prostitutes than they had for the soldiers' wives themselves.
		Martha was convinced that Apache men were machista and, in her own words from her 1908 autobiography, "savage".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martha_Summerhayes (892 words)

	Amazon.ca: Vanished Arizona: Books: Martha Summerhayes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The second in the series, Living Voices of the Past, of diaries of the 1800s is the memoir of Martha Dunham Summerhayes' adventures of an Army wife as she follows her husband from post to post.
		Born and educated in New England, Martha (Mattie) is a well-traveled young lady, having spent time in Europe, most notably Germany.
		Summerhayes account does not have this weakness and she is more concerned with how the events affect her children and herself.
	www.amazon.ca /Vanished-Arizona-Martha-Summerhayes/dp/1404337245 (824 words)

	Martha Summerhayes: Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman - Bøger
		In 1874 when Martha Dunham Summerhayes came as a bride from the coast of Nantucket to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory, she learned the hard facts of army life at Forts Whipple, McDowell, Apache, Yuma, Lowell and a summer in Ehrenberg, all in Arizona.
		Following her fanciful dreams, she married Jack Summerhayes in 1874 and lived with his regiment for four years in the Arizona Territories as they traveled from fort to fort through the wilderness.
		In one harrowing adventure, young Martha is advised by her husband to shoot herself and her baby son in preference to being captured by Indians.
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	Trails of days past
		Martha Summerhayes was one of these unprepared but loyal wives who endured every conceivable hardship as she took her place in the history of the West.
		Summerhayes account of her journeys from one Arizona fort to another in her book Vanished Arizona.
		Martha Summerhayes, in her account, relates her first introduction to the Arizona territory by way of the Colorado River.
	www.sharlot.org /archives/history/dayspast/text/1998_08_16.shtml (623 words)

	Living Voices from the Past - Vanished Arizona
		Martha Summerhayes may have been considered a wimp in the deserts of Arizona having come from an upper middle class family on Nantucket Island.
		Martha and husband, Jack, played tricks on the officers and their wives when they came to visit.
		Martha's husband, Jack, retired a major in 1900 and in 1904 was advanced to Lieutenant Colonel.
	www.beverlysltd.com /vanishedarizona.html (528 words)

	Summerhayes, Martha: Vanished Arizona: Recollections of My Army Life
		-from "Chapter 13: A New Recruit" Martha Summerhayes was a respectable Victorian lady when she left civilized society behind, in 1874, to follow her cavalry-officer husband West, to the Wyoming Territory and then to unknown and inaccessible Arizona.
		Written "at the urgent and ceaseless request" of her children and first published in 1908, this compulsively readable account of her life on the frontier is a unique document of the American exploration and settling of the West, offering a little-heard woman's perspective on an historical era that continues to echo in contemporary American society.
		American writer MARTHA SUMMERHAYES (1846-1911) was born in Massachusetts and spent two years studying in Germany before her life on the American frontier.
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	Fort Apache - in the news since it was established in 1871
		Martha Summerhayes wrote about actually living at Fort Apache in 1874 in 'Vanished Arizona', her book of her memories as a military wife on the frontier.
		Martha Summerhayes tells of meeting Colonel Corydon Cooley, the colorful veteran who had settled on the reservation after retiring from the army.
		Refined Victorian lady that she was, Martha tried to rationalize the situation, writing, "Now this was too awful, but I knew he did not intend for me to ask any more questions.
	www.sharlot.org /archives/history/dayspast/text/2003_08_31.shtml (1237 words)

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		Martha arrived at Fort Apache pregnant with her first child.
		Martha relied on occasional Army pack trains to replenish her larder.
		Martha and Jack were also bivouacked in other remote forts along the western frontier.
	www.jancleere.com /Martha_Summerhayes.html (1503 words)

	John Wyer Summerhayes, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army
		Summerhayes joined her Second Lieutenant husband, Jack Summerhayes, at Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874.
		Summerhayes I suppose you will have a hard time wading through my scrawl but I know you will be generous and remember that I went to sea when a little over nine
		Summerhayes' book to read, and I have read it with delight, for I was in "K" when Mrs.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jwsummerhayes.htm (5393 words)

	Vanished Arizona By Martha Summerhayes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As a young bride, Martha Summerhayes joined her 2nd Lt. husband, Jack Summerhayes, at Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874.
		You will smile as she bemoans the lack of servants, something most of us know how to do without, and you will sympathize as she recounts her desire to shuck the dresses of the "civilized" East for the cooler and more comfortable dress of the Mexican women.
		Truly, Martha Summerhayes is a living voice from the past.
	www.myshelf.com /biography/02/vanishedarizona.htm (285 words)

	Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes : Arthur's Classic Novels
		Project Gutenberg Etext "Vanished Arizona" by Martha Summerhayes "Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman" Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting these files!!
		A lieutenant's allowance of quarters, according to the Army Regulations, is one room and a kitchen, a captain's allowance is two rooms and a kitchen, and so on up, until a colonel has a fairly good house." I told him I thought it an outrage; that lieutenants' wives needed quite as much as colonels' wives.
		He said: "Don't worry, Martha, an Apache never was known to attack in the night," and after hearing many repetitions of this assertion, upon which I made him take his oath, I threw myself upon the bed.
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		Summerhayes found out that her marriage was going to take her to Arizona, she wrote about it, "that dreaded and then unknown land, and the uncertain future was before me" (6).
		Martha didn’t last long in Arizona, and it wasn’t until after moving back to her home of Nantucket, when she began to write about Arizona.
		Interest in the book has grown and so the book keeps getting republished throughout the years, adding on letters that she had received in reaction to the books opening.
	www.ic.arizona.edu /ic/mcbride/ws200/finalpage.html (2827 words)

	History Magazine - Glittering Misery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As the wagon lurched through the narrow cut in the mountains, Martha wondered if she could carry out Jack’s instructions — in case he was wounded, she was to use her loaded derringer on their son and then on herself.
		A year earlier, Martha was just back from an extended stay in Germany and marriage to Lieutenant Jack Summerhayes.
		After the birth of her son, Martha Summerhayes suffered through a prolonged recovery, while Emily FitzGerald, a doctor’s wife, contracted a postpartum infection that lingered for days.
	www.history-magazine.com /misery.html (574 words)

	Museum Book Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Martha Summer aye's husband, a Lieutenant, brought her to the wilds of Arizona as a bride in 1874 when his 8th Infantry Regiment was transferred here.
		The total population of the Territory was 20,000 when they arrived.
		You will find the adventures of Martha Summerhayes awarding experience.
	www.havasumuseum.com /MUSEUM/museum_book_store.htm (394 words)

	Martha Summerhayes Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Martha Summerhayes Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		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.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Martha_Summerhayes (188 words)

	History and information about Quartzsite, Arizona
		Because of the water which existed at this place, Tyson's Wells soon became a stage station on the road from Ehrenburg to Prescott.
		In 1875 Martha Summerhayes described this place as being the most melancholy and uninviting that she had ever seen, saying that it "reeks of everything unclean, morally and physically..."
		Although Hinton lists Tyson's as being the same place as Los Posos, maps show that the tow were seperate, Los Posos lying about four miles to the east of Tyson's.
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	Quotations about Captain Augustus Corliss from "Vanished Arizona."
		Summerhayes' book to clarify where his Company was and why.
		Summerhayes was the wife of Captain Corliss' First Lieutenant, John Wyer Summerhayes about the time that the 8th Infantry was transferred from Wyoming to Arizona in the 1870's.
		I highly recommend her book to provide an excellent view of life in the Army in the old west.
	www.dredgings.com /oldbooks/arizona.htm (909 words)

	Jan Cleere
		“Martha Summerhayes’ Culinary Adventures” tantalizes the taste buds with instructions
		Martha traveled the army posts of Arizona from 1874 to 1886 following her military
		a historical menu of the meals Martha cooked as she made her way from one military
	www.jancleere.com /Freelance_Publications.html (952 words)

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		Much of the colloquial grammar and spelling is retained, only minimal corrections have been made in obvious cases.
		Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes TO MY SON HARRY SUMMERHAYES WHO SHARED THE VICISSITUDES OF MY LIFE IN ARIZONA, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED Preface I have written this story of my army life at the urgent and ceaseless request of my children.
		"Don't worry about that, Martha," said Jack, "your turn will come." He proved a true prophet, for sooner or later, I saw them all again, and was able to extend to them the hospitality of an army home.
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	Vanished Arizona - Martha Summerhayes - Palm Reader eBook
		Vanished Arizona - Martha Summerhayes - Palm Reader eBook
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		She was a keen observer and captures much of the behind-the-scenes activity at the frontier army posts.
		: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes.
		Recollections spanning a quarter of a century and life at dozens of army post of Martha Summerhayes who in 1874 came as a bride to
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		"Ach, Martha, you American girls are so differently brought up";
		I have also been able, with some difficulty and much patient effort, to secure several photographs of exceptional interest, which have been added to the illustrations.
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		I have written this story of my army life at the urgent and ceaseless request of my children.
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		best you can, Martha, I have to go to the barracks; be back again
		Martha, and look over the stockade, and I think you can see
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