Ladies of the canyons
Subtitle: a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest
By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780816524945
Subjects: Social conditions; Women; Biography; History
Description: "Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of a group of remarkable women whose lives were transformed by the people and landscape of the American Southwest in the first decades of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-355) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : ladies of the canyons; title: Imperfectly independent; title: Land of ineffable light; title: Capturing the wind; title: The Indians' book; title: "Time and the world"; title: Secrets and dualities; title: Creating a brave new world; title: Desert euphoria; title: Walpi rendezvous; title: "A fine woman to be out with"; title: The city different; title: Remarkable time, remarkable place; title: A rare thing : becoming oneself; title: A country of things in light; title: Death in Paris; title: City of ladies; title: New women of the Rio Grande; title: "Roughneck and low-brow"; title: Everything and nothing; title: Afterword : something of the spirit.