“The temperature was 122 degrees in the shade, the drinking water was 86 degrees, and the butter poured like oil. The spoiled food caused the refrigerator to stink indescribably, the meat turned green, and it was too hot to nap.”
So wrote Martha Summerhayes in the summer of 1874. She was a young Army bride, “following the guidon,” traveling with her husban
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