Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Reveille ix
Part I Arizona Bound 1
Chapter 1 Miles and Miles of White Burning, Blinding Sand: Alice Garrison Dryer 6
Chapter 2 I Resolved to Go!: Julia Edith Kirkham Davis 17
Chapter 3 I Make It a Point to See All Worth Seeing: Mary Henrietta Banks Stacey 32
Part II Post Life 56
Chapter 4 No Woman Could Be Induced to Go to Arizona: Frances Anne Mullen Boyd 62
Chapter 5 The Authority of a Riding Whip: Sarah Elvira Camp Upham 80
Part III The Family 94
Chapter 6 Cacti in Bloom-Red, Purple, Yellow, and White: Ellen McGowan Biddle 102
Chapter 7 A Calmness of Desperation: Katharine Sadler Madison Cochran 122
Part IV Enlisted Men's Wives, Servants, and Laundresses 136
Chapter 8 The Great Western: Sarah Bowman 145
Chapter 9 Boiling Cauldrons: Jane Earl Thorpy 156
Part V On Our Way Home 162
Chapter 10 The Indians Are Surrounding Us!: Mary Wildman Adams 168
Chapter 11 We Were Young and Life Was Sweet: Alice Carey Applegate Sargent 174
Epilogue: Taps 183
Bibliography 186
Index 192
About the Author 199