More than petticoats.
By: Beverly West.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: More than petticoats series
Publisher: TwoDot
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Women -- New Mexico -- Biography.; Women -- New Mexico -- History.; New Mexico -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Remarkable New Mexico women
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-127) and index.