Title: A quilt of words : women's diaries, letters & original accounts of life in the Southwest, 1860-1960 /
Authors: Niederman, Sharon.
Publisher: Johnson Books,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Women Southwest, New Biography.; Frontier and pioneer life Southwest, New; Women Southwest, New Diaries.; Women Southwest, New Correspondence.; Southwest, New Social life and customs.
Abstract: Historically, the Southwest has attracted people with yearnings for freedom and adventure, people who define themselves as individuals. Unlike their husbands and brothers, women in the Southwest did not, for the most part, subdue and tame the land; but their character and individuality were manifested as they lived with and improved upon conditions as they found them. Their fascination with their way of life and the need for self-expression led them to write of their experiences, providing them with a creative outlet and offering those who came later a unique window into the past. "A Quilt of Words" won the Border Regional Library Association 1989 Southwest Book Award for literary excellence and enrichment of the cultural heritage of the Southwest. It was also awarded the National Federation of Press Women first prize for history in 1989. --back cover.
Contents: Introduction -- Agnes Miner: The story of a Colorado pioneer -- Flora Spiegelberg: Reminiscences of a Jewish bride of the Santa Fe Trail -- Yavapai woman speaks -- Mary Annetta Coleman Pomeroy: My life story -- Mary L. Stright: A missionary teacher's first winter in Jemez -- Marietta Palmer Wetherill: Chatelaine of the Chaco -- E.J. Elliott: Fighting death in the desert -- Isabella Greenway: A charmed girlhood -- Katherine Davis: Memoir of a health-seeker -- Frances Beebe: I never was a person to get lonely -- Beatrice Nogare: Life in the southern Colorado coal mining camps -- Mary Cabot Wheelwright: Journey towards understanding -- Grace Mott Johnson: Two weeks in New Mexico -- Elanor Williams: Rebel in the west -- Marge Armijo: our times were special.