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."