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Author:

Poling-Kempes, Lesley, author.

Title:

Ladies of the canyons : a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest / Lesley Poling-Kempes.

Publisher:

The University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

viii, 373 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women--Southwest, New--History.
Women--Southwest, New--Biography.
Southwest, New--History--19th century.
Southwest, New--Social conditions--19th century.
Social conditions.
Women.
Southwest, New.
1800 - 1899
Biography.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-355) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0816524947 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816524945 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)904755805

LCCN:

2015001524

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)