Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
Lesley Poling-Kempes, "Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest"
English | ISBN: 0816524947 | 2015 | 384 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0816524947 | 2015 | 384 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
WILLA Literary Award, 2016Reading the West Book Award for Nonfiction, MPIBASilver Medal, US History, 2016 IPPY AwardsWestern Writers of America Spur Award finalistLadies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world.
Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, 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.
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