Comments on: Vanished Arizona

By: C. Beale

C. Beale — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:14:45 +0000

Vanished Arizona is a wonderful book. Read it! Unfortunately the audio book version does not justice. Both abrigement and performance of the narrator used to make Martha “Mattie” Summerhayes Its like an idiot. As a descendant of his, I take that very personally. In fact, my entire family, including my sister Katharine Beale Summerhayes, named after the daughter of Martha, listened to the book together and we had to disable it if we were horrified by this production. I invite you to read the fascinating book, but do not waste your time or money to the audio version. Rating: 1 / 5

By: S. A. TAUL

S. A. TAUL — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:23:04 +0000

Anyone who has traveled through Arizona (or anywhere in the west) and wondered how travelers never done before, will enjoy memories Martha Summerhayes. His perspective and the detail is fascinating and there are so many places (Ft. McDowell is now the name of the casino on the Financial Times. McDowell Indian Reservation, Ft. Apache can be visited in the White Mountains) that have known immediately. Rating: 5 / 5

By: annie laurie

annie laurie — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:04:51 +0000

I love this book and read on my Kindle, invites you to read if you like adventure, old military posts and forts and of course women who had the courage and endurance of their survival Rating: 5 / 5

By: Thomas J. Horton

Thomas J. Horton — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:12:54 +0000

The book is an excellent read on the Arizona border, especially on the Forts Whipple and Apache, Camp Verde, General Crook Trail and Travel on the coast of Mogollin. Rating: 5 / 5

By: Julie A. Earhart

Julie A. Earhart — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:46:06 +0000

The second series, Living Voices of the Past, newspapers of the 1800s is the memory of the adventures of Martha Dunham Summerhayes “an armed woman as she follows her husband from job to job. Born and educated in New England, Martha (Mattie) is well traveled young lady, after having spent time in Europe, particularly Germany. The stories of his life begins with her marriage to Jack Summerhayes in 1874. She follows in the Territory of Wyoming and Fort Russell, where she learns that the Army wives did not nurse, cooks and maids. It is entirely to itself and is due to what it can. She learns to endure sandstorms, scorpions, coyotes, wild steal their food, Indians, Mexicans, and the protocol of the army. Mattie is a woman who is not used to hardship, but as the memory is said from the beginning of the 20th century, the hardships and reality checks that we face do not seem so difficult that they must have been when their was sustainable. Mattie Jack follows more than ten positions during his 30 year career. By the way, she has two children, Harry and Katherine, but Mattie seems more concerned with his own comfort and diseases along the way as she does on her baby. Mostly, it refers to Harry as his son, and a good hour and a half before listeners hear his name. Jane Merrifield-Beecher is the voice of Mattie. She reads the memory of Mattie so quickly, they are often difficult to decipher. Mattie memories are rather superficial and listeners learn about life in the late 19th and early 20th century, the adventure is more like a bad “B” movie than a true-life account of a woman army. Rating: 2 / 5