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Off the beaten track : women adventurers and mountaineers in western Canada / Cyndi Smith.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection GV199.9 .S65 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Cyndi, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women mountaineers--Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)--Biography.
- Women mountaineers.
- Women explorers--Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)--Biography.
- Women explorers.
- Women--Canada, Western--Biography.
- Women.
- Women explorers--Biography.
- Women mountaineers--British Columbia--Biography.
- British Columbia.
- Canada--Canadian Rockies.
- Western Canada.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jasper, Alta. : Coyote Books, ©1989.
- Summary:
- The story of fourteen women explorers, writers, artists, mountaineers, and trail guides active between the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885 and the Second World War-- a half-century of feverish exploration.
- Contents:
- Explorers, artists and writers: Mary Vaux Walcott
- Mary Schaffer Warren
- Elizabeth Parker
- Mary Jobe Akeley
- Caroline Hinman
- Mountaineers: Gertrude Benham
- Henrietta Tuzo Wilson
- Elizabeth Larned MacCarthy
- Phyllis James Munday
- Lillian Gest
- Katie Gardiner
- Georgia Engelhard Cromwell
- Working women: Agnes Harragin Truxler
- Mona Harragin Matheson.
- Notes:
- Maps on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-277) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0969245726
- 9780969245728
- OCLC:
- 24009607
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