This wild spirit : women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada / edited with an introduction by Colleen Skidmore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Skidmore, Colleen, 1957- editor, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)--Description and travel--Sources.

Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.).

Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)--History--19th century--Sources.

Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)--History--20th century--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2006.

Summary:

In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp to get things in order for the morrow's conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood...I can hardly wait to be off again." Vaux's compulsion was shared by many women whose intellects, imaginations, and spirits rose to the challenge of the mountains between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This Wild Spirit explores a sampling of women's creative responses--in fiction and travel writing, photographs and paintings, embroidery and beadwork, letters and diaries, poetry and posters--to their experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780888645876

0888645872