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This etext was prepared by a team of Arizona women.
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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.
For whenever I allude to those early days, and tell to them the tales
they have so often heard, they always say: "Now, mother, will you
write these stories for us? Please, mother, do; we must never forget
them."
Then, after an interval, "Mother, have you written those stories of
Arizona yet?" until finally, with the aid of some old letters written from
those very places (the letters having been preserved, with other papers
of mine, by an uncle in New England long since dead), I have been able
to give a fairly connected story.
I have not attempted to commemorate my husband's brave career in the
Civil War, as I was not married until some years after the close of that
war, nor to describe the many Indian campaigns in which he took part,
nor to write about the achievements of the old Eighth Infantry. I leave
all that to the historian. I have given simply the impressions made upon
the mind of a young New England woman who left her comfortable
home in the early seventies, to follow a second lieutenant into the
wildest encampments of the American army.
Hoping the story may possess some interest for the younger women of
the army, and possibly for some of our old friends, both in the army
and in civil life, I venture to send it forth.
POSTCRIPT (second edition).
The appendix to this, the second edition of my book, will tell
something of the kind manner in which the first edition was received by
my friends and the public at large.
But as several people had expressed a wish that I should tell more of
my army experiences I have gone carefully over the entire book, adding
some detail and a few incidents which had come to my mind later.
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.
January, 1911.

CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER I

. GERMANY AND THE ARMY II. I JOINED THE ARMY III.
ARMY HOUSE-KEEPING IV. DOWN THE PACIFIC COAST V.
THE SLUE VI. UP THE RIO COLORADO VII. THE MOJAVE
DESERT VIII. LEARNING HOW TO SOLDIER IX. ACROSS THE
MOGOLLONS X. A PERILOUS ADVENTURE XI. CAMP APACHE
XII. LIFE AMONGST THE APACHES XIII. A NEW RECRUIT XIV.
A MEMORABLE JOURNEY XV. FORDING THE LITTLE
COLORADO XVI. STONEMAN'S LAKE XVII. THE COLORADO
DESERT XVIII. EHRENBERG ON THE COLORADO XIX.
SUMMER AT EHRENBERG XX. MY DELIVERER XXI. WINTER
IN EHRENBERG XXII. RETURN TO THE STATES XXIII. BACK
TO ARIZONA XXIV. UP THE VALLEY OF THE GILA XXV. OLD
CAMP MACDOWELL XXVI. A SUDDEN ORDER XXVII. THE
EIGHTH FOOT LEAVES ARIZONA XXVIII. CALIFORNIA AND
NEVADA XXIX. CHANGING STATION XXX. FORT NIOBRARA
XXXI. SANTA FE XXXII. TEXAS XXXIII. DAVID'S ISLAND
APPENDIX

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CHAPTER I
GERMANY AND THE ARMY
The stalwart men of the Prussian army, the Lancers, the Dragoons, the
Hussars, the clank of their sabres on the pavements, their brilliant
uniforms, all made an impression upon my romantic mind, and I
listened eagerly, in the quiet evenings, to tales of Hanover under King
George, to stories of battles lost, and the entry of the Prussians into the
old Residenz-stadt;