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

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

"Ladies of the Canyons tells the true stories 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poling-Kempes, Lesley (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Women > Southwest, New > History.
Women > Southwest, New > Biography.
Southwest, New > History > 19th century.
Southwest, New > Social conditions > 19th century.
Biographies.
History.
Table of 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.

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