Extraordinary women of the Rocky Mountain West
By: edited by Tim Blevins ... [et al.].
Contributors: Pikes Peak Library District; Colorado Women's Hall of Fame; Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium (4th 2007: Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Regional history series; Regional history series (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District, with the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Colorado Springs, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781567352559
Subjects: Women; Biography; History
Description: Contains papers presented at the fourth annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium held June 9, 2007 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  Profiles a number of prominent and exceptional women throughout the history of the Rocky Mountain West and highlights the political, cultural, economic and social conditions which these women helped to shape.
Notes: Includes papers presented at the 2007 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Honorees by year of induction / The Colorado Women's Hall of Fame; title: Introduction / Lynn Gilfillan-Morton; title: Marie Guiraud : a remarkable character / Linda Bjorklund; title: Laura Bell McDaniel : Queen of the Colorado City Tenderloin / Jan MacKell; title: From breeding Persian cats to wrapping candy : working women of Colorado Springs in the 1920s / Michael L. Olsen & Patricia B. Olsen; title: Virginia Donaghe McClurg : Mesa Verde crusader / Judith R. Finley; title: Vida Ellison & the Manitou Cliff Dwellings / Katie Davis Gardner & Katherine Scott Sturdevant; title: Alice Bemis Taylor / Vesta W. Tutt; title: Alice Stewart Hill, Colorado Springs' first wild flower artist : her family & her friends / Edwin Bathke & Nancy Bathke; title: In her garden / Susan Coolidge; title: "Helen of Colorado" : Helen Hunt Jackson, Colorado Springs, & the making of an Indian activist / Katherine Scott Sturdevant; title: Helen Hunt Jackson & the rhetoric of humanization : creating a rhetorical space between traditional feminine & masculine spheres in the late 19th century / Stephen Collins; title: They came to educate : the Sisters of Loretto in the Rocky Mountain West, 1852- Present / Eugenia R. Ahrens; title: Gretchen McRae : civil rights & political activist of Colorado Springs & the United States, 1924-1966 / Caroline E. Blackburn; title: Maggie Smith Hathaway : Montana's unsung progressive era reformist / Patsy Clark; title: Dr. Caroline Spencer & Colorado Springs' radicals for reform / Chris Nicholl; title: "Someday the women are going to run this government" : Lillian Kerr, a Colorado Springs legend / Chris Nicholl; title: Alimony for men new cry / Mildred Morris; title: How Colorado laws discriminate against women; title: The corset conflagration, or women's liberation, 1923 / Inez Hunt & Wanetta W. Draper.