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title	:	Army Wives On the American Frontier : Living By the Bugles
author	:	Eales, Anne Bruner.
publisher	:	Johnson Books
isbn10 | asin	:	1555661661
print isbn13	:	9781555661663
ebook isbn13	:	9780585019703
language	:	English
subject	Women pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography, Army spouses--West (U.S.)--Biography, United States.--Army--Military life--History--19th century, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--Biography.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	F596.E25 1996eb
ddc	:	978
subject	:	Women pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography, Army spouses--West (U.S.)--Biography, United States.--Army--Military life--History--19th century, Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.) , West (U.S.)--Biography.

Army Wives on the American Frontier LIVING BY THE BUGLES Anne Bruner Eales JOHNSON BOOKS Boulder

Copyright 1996 by Anne Bruner Eales All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published in the United States by Johnson Books, a division of Johnson Publishing Company, 1880 South 57th Court, Boulder, Colorado 80301. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cover design: Debra B. Topping Cover photo: Major Anson Mills (seated on the left), his wife, Nannie (the woman on the right), their two children, and friends enjoy a picnic on the Gila River near Fort Thomas, Arizona, mid-1880s. (Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, 111 SC 83730) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Eales, Anne Bruner. Army wives on the American frontier: Living by the bugles / by Anne Bruner Eales. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-55566-166-1 (pbk.: alk. paper). 1. Women pioneersWest (U.S.)Biography. 2. Army spousesWest (U.S.)Biography. 3. United States. ArmyMilitary life History19th century. 4. Frontier and pioneer lifeWest (U.S.) 5. West (U.S.)Biography. I. Title F596.E25 1996 96-31900 978dc20 CIP Printed in the United States by Johnson Printing 1880 South 57th Court Boulder, Colorado 80301

Page v Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments xi The Girl I Left Behind Me 1 If You Have Courage, Stay 13 A Cannon in the Dining Room 35 Servants, Shortages, and the Sutler 55 Holidays, Horse Races, and Hops 75 Cholera and Creosote 95 An Itch for Epaulets 113 A Touch of Class 129 Apaches on the Porch 147 A Drink of Dirty Water 165 Notes 175 Bibliography 195 Index 203 Photograph Section 211

Page vi This book is dedicated to the military wife, whether the frontier her husband explores is in the air, on the land, or at sea

Page vii Preface WHEN HE FOUND OUT that I was writing a book, my five-year-old grandson, William Stewart Eales, asked me if it was a "Once upon a time... " kind of story. After some thought, I told him that it was, because the army wives who lived the adventures described in this book come from another time and another way of thinking. In an age of equality and women's rights, it is difficult to relate to "ladies" who were raised in the restrictive chrysallis of nineteenth-century traditions and Victorian viewpoints. Most of the military wives included in this story were on the frontier between the end of the Civil War, in 1865, and the beginning of the Spanish-American War, in 1898. It was an era of western expansionism in a class-structured America that had, by modern standards, a twisted form of political correctness that amplified cultural and racial divisions. Many officers' wives were from wealthy and influential families who had provided them superior educations, extremely comfortable surroundings, and the assurance that they were better than everybody else. Arrival on the frontier was not only a blow to their physical well-being, it also was an assault on their self-esteem. Military wives discovered that the harshness, danger, and new experiences of life in the West challenged eastern concepts of womanhood, civilization, and class in the interests of adaptation and survival. As with their husbands, a strong sense of duty kept these women living with newspaper tablecloths, toadstool carpets, and plaster ceilings that collapsed just as they were serving dinner to seventeen people.

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