Ladies of the Canyons : : a League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
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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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PUBLISHED
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: viii, 373 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780816524945
0816524947
SUBJECTS
Women -- Southwest, New -- History.
Women -- Southwest, New -- Biography.
Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century.
Southwest, New -- Social conditions -- 19th century.