A woman of the century, Frances Minerva Nunnery (1898-1997)
Subtitle: her story in her own memorable voice as told to Cecil Dawkins / edited by Cecil Dawkins ; with a foreword by Max Evans.
Contributors: Dawkins, Cecil, 1927-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Nunnery, Frances Minerva, 1898-1997.; Women ranchers -- New Mexico -- Biography.; Ranch life -- New Mexico.; New Mexico -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Anyone who still believes women are frail, powerless, and incapable of dealing with machinery should read the story of Frances Nunnery, a determined, ingenious entrepreneur whose career and personality defy every stereotype about women. We first meet her as a self-sufficient little girl working on a Virginia tobacco farm, a youngster who, when she got a "lickin," never cried but "stood there as a matter of pride" and took her medicine.

At thirteen she went to work at the Heinz plant in Pittsburgh, and at twenty-one she was shipped off to Colorado to be married to a man she didn't know. In 1921 she escaped to New Mexico in a Model T Ford, settling in Albuquerque where, among other occupations, she worked as a chauffeur, bus driver, boarding house keeper, and nightclub singer. She never stopped working, living all over New Mexico as rancher, deputy sheriff, and real estate broker."--BOOK JACKET.