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

Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource 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 Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley (founder of Ghost Ranch), Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were plucky, intrepid women whose lives were transformed in the first decades of the twentieth century by the people and the landscape of the American Southwest. Part of an influential circle of women that included Louisa Wade Wetherill, Alice Corbin Henderson, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Mary Austin, and Willa Cather, these ladies imagined and created a new home territory, a new society, and a new identity for themselves and for the women who would follow them Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Burlin, Natalie Curtis, 1875-1921. Stanley, Carol Bishop, 1879-1948 Klauber, Alice Ellen, 1871-1951. Wheelwright, Mary C SUBJECT Wheelwright, Mary C. fast Klauber, Alice Ellen, 1871-1951 fast Burlin, Natalie Curtis, 1875-1921 fast Subject Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art -- History -- 19th century Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian -- History -- 19th century SUBJECT Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian fast Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art fast Subject Women -- Southwest, New -- Biography Women -- Southwest, New -- History Ethnomusicologists -- Southwest, New -- Biography Pianists -- Massachusetts -- Biography Painters -- California -- San Diego -- Biography Painters -- Southwest, New -- Biography Anthropologists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography Anthropologists -- Southwest, New -- Biography HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) Pianists Painters Ethnomusicologists Anthropologists Social conditions Women SUBJECT Southwest, New -- Social conditions -- 19th century Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century Ghost Ranch (Abiquiu, N.M.) -- History -- 19th century Subject New Mexico -- Abiquiu -- Ghost Ranch Massachusetts -- Boston Massachusetts California -- San Diego New Southwest Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816532315 0816532311

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