TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poling-Kempes,Lesley
TI  - Ladies of the canyons: a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest 
SN  - 9780816524945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - F786 .P85 2015
U1  - 979/.03109252 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Tucson
PB  - The University of Arizona Press
KW  - Women
KW  - History
KW  - Southwest, New
KW  - Biography
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -