ave given them both away to friends
whom I wanted to have read your delightful and charming book. I am now
ordering one of these for another friend and wish to keep one in my
record library as a memorable story of the bravery and courage of the
noble band of army men and women who helped to blaze the pathway of the
nation's progress in its course of Empire Westward.

No personal record written, which I have read, tells so splendidly of
what the good women of our army endured in the trials that beset the
army in the life on the plains in the days succeeding the Civil War. And
all this at a time when the nation and its people were caring but little
for you all and the struggles you were making.

I will be pleased indeed if you will kindly inscribe your name in one of
the books you will send me.

Sincerely Yours, C. B. DOUGHERTY, Brig. Gen'l N. G. Pa. Jan. 19, 1908

SCHENECTADY, N. Y. June 8th, 1908.

Mrs. John W. Summerhayes, North Shore Hill, Nantucket, Mass.

My Dear Mrs. Summerhayes:

Were I to say that I enjoyed "Vanished Arizona, "I should very
inadequately express my feelings about it, because there is so much
to arouse emotions deeper than what we call "enjoyment;" it stirs
the sympathies and excites our admiration for your courage and your
fortitude. In a word, the story, honest and unaffected, yet vivid, has
in it that touch of nature which makes kin of us all.

How actual knowledge and experience broadens our minds! Your
appreciation of, and charity for, the weaknesses of those living a
lonely life of deprivation on the frontier, impressed me very much.
I wish too, that what you say about the canteen could be published in
every newspaper in America.

Very sincerely yours,

M. F. WESTOVER, Secretary Gen'l Electric Co.

THE MILITARY SERVICE INSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Governor's
Island, N. Y. June 25, 1908.

Dear Mrs. Summerhayes:

I offer my personal congratulations upon your success in producing
a work of such absorbing interest to all friends of the Army, and so
instructive to the public at large.

I have just finished reading the book, from cover to cover, to my wife
and we have enjoyed it thoroughly.

Will you please advise me where the book can be purchased in New York,
or otherwise mail two copies to me at 203 W. 54th Street, New York City,
with memo of price per copy, that I may remit the amount.

Very truly yours,

T. F. RODENBOUGH, Secretary and Editor (Brig. Gen'l. U. S. A.)