Ladies of the canyons : a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest /

Poling-Kempes, Lesley,

Ladies of the canyons : a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest / Lesley Poling-Kempes. - 373pages 23cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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)

2015001524


Women--History--Southwest, New.
Women--Southwest, New--Biography.


Southwest, New--History--19th century.
Southwest, New--Social conditions--19th century.

F786 / .P85 2015

979/.03109252