Embarking by boat from San Francisco in 1874, Martha Summerhayes joined her army husband as he headed to far-off Arizona. Arriving in Yuma they met the soldiers and wives coming out of Arizona and Martha remarked: “The women’s clothes looked ridiculously old-fashioned, and I wondered if I should look that way when my time came to leave Arizona.” She did.
May 2016
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- Grande Dames of the West
- A Life Cut Short
- Tombstone Trivia
- The Original Rhinestone Cowgirl
- Western Events for May 2016
- On the Rock with the Apache Kid
- Jim Masterson and a Stick of Dynamite
- No “Thanks” for the Chinese
- Death Comes for the Wicked
- On the Trail of Father Pierre De Smet
- The Man Who Shot Bill Tilghman
- Fine Wine at the O.K. Corral
- The Ordeal of Larcena Pennington
- Was Jesse James fighting to bring back the Confederacy?
- Did most Texas Rangers not wear badges until after the turn of the 20th century?
- The True Odyssey of Hugh Glass
- Snake Oil
- A Nazi Western?
- Wheelbarrows Started The Fortune
- John Wayne’s First Movie Six-gun
- One-Armed Bandits
- There Must be Something in the Water…
- Fashion Faux Pas, Arizona-Style
- Tragic Powwow
- Sinful Chocolate
- Dangerous Dan
- Was John Wesley Hardin as deadly and fast to shoot as folks claim?
- The First Naval Vessel on the Colorado River
- Border Bandidos
- Beyond the Horizon with Author Jefferson Glass
- America’s Longest War
- No Revenge for Frank Hamer
- The Yosemite Legend of Joseph Walker
- What’s in a Name?
- Army Corps of Topographical Engineers
- A Freighter Transcends the Plains
- What does Mark Twain mean by “Josh-lights” in Roughing It?
- Cowboys & Millionaires
- Gold-Hungry Ghosts in Bannack
- “Go False Man”
- The Outlaw and the Lady
- The Vendetta Ride
- Lights! Camera! Action!
- A House Divided
- Merlin Heinze
- The Fickle Gila River
- Alagazam!!!!!
- War Hero on the Campaign Trail
- He Lived With Big Nose Kate
- Double Crossin’ Duelist
- Erastus “Deaf” Smith
- The Origins of “Buffalo Soldier”
- Accusing the Deadly
- The Reservation Trading Post Era
- Jane Sanford Left a Legacy, Too
- Did Paulita Maxwell bear Billy the Kid’s child?
- Match that Lit the Civil War
- Arizona Women of the Pleasant Valley War
- Whitman’s Chocolates are 174 Years Old
- Scene Stealers
- America’s Youngest Explorer Sees the World
- Let ’er Buck
- The Legend of La Tules
- An Extraordinary Life
- A Hero’s Tale
- Galeyville Outlaw Eating Etiquette
- The Loss of a National Treasure
- A Wild Time in Historic Deadwood, South Dakota
- Why do Westerns show mainly male horses?
- Rubble on Route 66
- Stopping Sam Bass
- That’s Got to Hurt!
- The “Granddaddy” of Silver Strikes
- Between Glacier and Yellowstone, Experience Two National Treasures
- ¡Ay Chihuahua!
- What Started the Pleasant Valley War?
- Tragedy on the Butterfield Line
- “Aunt Clara” Brown, Angel of the Rockies
- A Legendary Horseback Duel
- The Death of Jim Talbot
- Did the 7th Cavalry Carry Sabers at the Battle of the Little Big Horn?