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

Call Number

  • 979 P768 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

Physical 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.

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.

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