Poling-Kempes, Lesley
Ladies of the canyons : a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest / Lesley Poling-Kempes - Tucson, Arizona University of Arizona 2015 - viii, 373 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Prologue : ladies of the canyons -- Imperfectly independent -- Land of ineffable light and sudden shadow -- 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.
"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.
9780816524945 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0816524947 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816524945
2015001524
Women--History--Southwest, New
Social conditions
Women
Southwest, New--History--19th century
Southwest, New--Social conditions--19th century
Southwest, New
979.03109252 Pol 48
Ladies of the canyons : a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest / Lesley Poling-Kempes - Tucson, Arizona University of Arizona 2015 - viii, 373 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Prologue : ladies of the canyons -- Imperfectly independent -- Land of ineffable light and sudden shadow -- 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.
"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.
9780816524945 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0816524947 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816524945
2015001524
Women--History--Southwest, New
Social conditions
Women
Southwest, New--History--19th century
Southwest, New--Social conditions--19th century
Southwest, New
979.03109252 Pol 48