Arizona Capitol Times Staff//February 19, 2016//[read_meter]

Impressive as the steamboat Gila appears, Martha Summerhays, an Army wife who journeyed on the boat in 1874, described the steamer in less than glorious terms: “We had staterooms, but...

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