Ladies of the Canyons
A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Format: Book
Description: viii, 373 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
"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 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.
Subjects:
Women -- Southwest, New -- History.
Women -- Southwest, New -- Biography.
Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century.
Southwest, New -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Women -- Southwest, New -- History.
Women -- Southwest, New -- Biography.
Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century.
Southwest, New -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780816524945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY Women Pol | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references(pages 349-355) and index.