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Ladies of the canyons : a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest / Lesley Poling-Kempes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poling-Kempes, Lesley, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Southwest, New--History.
- Women.
- Women--Southwest, New--Biography.
- Southwest, New--History--19th century.
- Southwest, New.
- Southwest, New--Social conditions--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Prologue : ladies of the canyons
- Imperfectly independent
- Land of ineffable light
- Capturing the wind
- The Indians' book
- Time and the world
- Secrets and dualities
- Creating a brave new world
- Desert euphoria
- Walpi rendezvous
- A fine woman to be out with
- The city different
- Remarkable time, remarkable place
- A rare thing : becoming oneself
- A country of things in light
- Death in Paris
- City of ladies
- New women of the Rio Grande
- Roughneck and low-brow
- Everything and nothing
- Afterword : something of the spirit.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8165-3231-1
- OCLC:
- 913556865
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