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Martha Summerhayes

Born

in Nantucket, Massachusetts , The United States

October 21, 1844

Died

May 12, 1926

Genre

Memoir, Travel, Travel Memoir

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American memoirist.

She was a Nantucket, Massachusetts native who later on in life immigrated to Arizona. A well travelled and educated woman, Summerhayes spent two years, from 1871 to 1873, studying literature in Germany. Her passion for writing took her into a career as a writer. She became well known as a writer in Massachusetts, but she usually did her writing during the winter, which, in turn, led to her becoming interested in the warmer weather of Arizona.

In 1873, she married soldier John Wyer Summerhayes, a veteran of the American Civil War.

Wyer Summerhayes was still in the military when the couple married, so Martha further expanded her travels by going with her husband wherever the military sent him when no war was being fought. The ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 440 ratings · 66 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman by Martha Summerhayes, Dan L. Thrapp (Introduction) 4.06 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 1908 — 138 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanished Arizona: in large print it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	VANISHED ARIZONA it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	RARE 1908/1981 VANISHED ARIZONA FULL LEATHER ILLUSTRATED ARMY LIFE MEXICO BORDER [Hardcover] MARTHA SUMMERHAYES 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Vanished Arizona, Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman [Paperback] [2007] (Author) Martha Summerhayes by Martha Summerhayes, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I cast my lot in with a soldier, and where he was, was home to me.”
― Martha Summerhayes

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