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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2015Description: 373pages 23cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9780816524945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 979/.03109252 23
LOC classification:
  • F786 .P85 2015
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.
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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.

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