This cavalry wife's charming memoir on audio is a good look at Old West Arizona
In 1874 when Martha 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 in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California, Nevada, Oregon and Nebraska.
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"Oh, if I could only dress as the Mexicans do! Their necks and arms do look so cool and clean. I have always been sorry I did not adopt their fashion of house apparel. Instead of that, I yielded to the prejudices of my conservative partner and sweltered during the day in high-necked and long-sleeved white dresses."
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Arizona Daily Star
"This cavalry wife's charming memoir is a good look at Old West Arizona."
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Robert Burns' first daughter was Elizabeth. Her story and the five descendants Scottish lives are recorded here with the Bard's message today as ever in need. Al Quida listen: Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that. That Sense
This book has been eight years in the making. It is mostly a jumble of thoughts written down in old spiral notebooks and hidden in the bottom drawer underneath various manuals for software packages and hardware long since turned obsolete.
