Title: More than petticoats.
Authors: West, Beverly, 1961-
Publisher: TwoDot,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Women New Mexico Biography.; Women New Mexico History.; New Mexico Biography
Abstract: Presents twelve profiles of notable New Mexico women, including the Harvey Girls, railroad waitresses and bearers of culture and refinement in the untamed frontier; Mother Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto, pioneers of education; Nampeyo, master potter and preserver of Hopi culture; trailblazing feminist and anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons; modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffee; art patron Mabel Dodge Luhan; and curandera Jesusita Aragon.
Contents: Mother Magdalen and the sisters of Loretto: pioneers of education -- Nampeyo (Snake That Does Not Bite): Hopi master potter -- Mary Colter: Architect of the earth -- Elsie Clews Parsons: interpretor of the past and inventor of the future -- The Harvey Girls: the women who tamed the wild, wild west -- Mable Dodge Luhan: an artist of life -- Frieda Lawrence: a genius for living -- Maria Martinez: master potter of San Ildefonso -- Georgia O'Keefe: a woman on paper -- Laura Gilpin: cowgirl at heart -- Millicent Rogers: collector / artists of lifestyle -- Jesusita Aragon: La Partera: healer and midwife.