In Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman Martha Summerhayes documents her remarkable experiences as an army wife starting in 1874 with a journey to Fort Russell in the Wyoming Territory. From there it is almost impossible to list all the places she traveled - the Pacific Coast, Colorado River, Tucson, New York, the Mojave Desert, Camp McDowell, Verde River, Missouri River, Camp Apache, Ehrenberg, Gila River Valley... The book ends with an Appendix from Nantucket island in 1910 - near the end of the book she writes:

Sometimes I hear the still voices of the Desert: they seem to be calling me through the echoes of the Past. I hear, in fancy, the wheels of the ambulance crunching the small broken stones of the malapais, or grating swiftly over the gravel of the smooth white roads of the river-bottoms. I hear the rattle of the ivory rings on the harness of the six-mule team; I see the soldiers marching on ahead; I see my white tent, so inviting after a long day's journey.

But how vain these fancies! Railroad and automobile have annihilated distance, the army life of those years is past and gone, and Arizona, as we knew it, has vanished from the face of the earth.

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