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Author Poling-Kempes, Lesley, author.

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

Publication Info. Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

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 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  979.031 POLING-KEMPES    Check Shelf
Description viii, 373 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references(pages 349-355) and index.
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.
Subject Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century.
Southwest, New -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Women -- Southwest, New -- History.
Women -- Southwest, New -- Biography.
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
Southwest, New. (OCoLC)fst01244556
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780816524945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816524947 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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