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
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