LEADER 04760nam 2200997Ia 450 001 9910779550503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-94226-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520942264 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039305 035 $a(EBL)1991743 035 $a(OCoLC)905993000 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835727 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11437741 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835727 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10996300 035 $a(PQKB)10089062 035 $a(DE-B1597)519968 035 $a(OCoLC)1110709134 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520942264 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1991743 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675811 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1991743 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039305 100 $a20080707d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMary Austin and the American West$b[electronic resource] /$fSusan Goodman, Carl Dawson 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $a"Simpson, imprint in humanities". 311 $a0-520-24635-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-311) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tChronology of Mary Austin's life and work -- $t1. Desert Places 1868-1892 -- $t2. Owens Valley: 1892-1900 -- $t3. Independence: 1900-1905 -- $t4. Carmel: 1904-1907 -- $t5. In Italy and England: 1907-1910 -- $t6. New York: 1911-1914 -- $t7. The Village: 1914-1920 -- $t8. The Call of the West: 1920-1924 -- $t9. Santa Fe: 1924-1929 -- $t10. Indian Detours and Spanish Arts -- $t11. Last Years: 1929-1934 -- $t12. The Accounting -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aMary Austin (1868-1934)-eccentric, independent, and unstoppable-was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, "changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be." At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert and its ethnically diverse peoples. Defined in a sense by the places she lived, Austin also defined the places themselves, whether Bishop, in the Sierra Nevada, Carmel, with its itinerant community of western writers, or Santa Fe, where she lived the last ten years of her life. By the time of her death in 1934, Austin had published over thirty books and counted as friends the leading literary and artistic lights of her day. In this rich new biography, Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson explore Austin's life and achievement with unprecedented resonance, depth, and understanding. By focusing on one extraordinary woman's life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness. 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aWomen and literature$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWestern stories$xHistory and criticism 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn literature 610 $a1903. 610 $aamerican consciousness. 610 $aamerican frontier. 610 $aamerican history. 610 $aamerican west. 610 $aart and literature. 610 $abiography autobiography. 610 $acalifornia. 610 $adesert landscape. 610 $adiscussion books. 610 $aengaging. 610 $aethnic diversity. 610 $afrontier life. 610 $aindividual history. 610 $alifetime. 610 $aliterary influence. 610 $amary austin. 610 $amen and women. 610 $amove west. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $aold west. 610 $aregional history. 610 $aretrospective. 610 $asanta fe. 610 $asierra nevada. 610 $asouthwest. 610 $atejon pass. 610 $aunited states. 610 $awestern writers. 610 $awild west. 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWestern stories$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a818/.5209 676 $aB 700 $aGoodman$b Susan$f1951-$01467811 701 $aDawson$b Carl$0185163 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779550503321 996 $aMary Austin and the American West$93809481 997 $aUNINA