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Martha Summerhayes on the Crook Military Road

by | Mar 11, 2019 | True West Blog

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One of the most important military roads during the Apache Wars in Arizona was the General Crook Trail along the Mogollon Rim from Fort Verde to Fort Apache. The road was used primarily in the 1870s before the arrival of the railroads but wagon ruts and blaze marked mileposts on the ponderosa pines are still visible in some sections today. Martha Summerhayes, a young Army wife, rode in an ambulance


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