Ladies of the canyons : a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest / / Lesley Poling-Kempes
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| Autore: |
Poling-Kempes Lesley
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| Titolo: |
Ladies of the canyons : a league of extraordinary women and their adventures in the American Southwest / / Lesley Poling-Kempes
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| Pubblicazione: | Tucson, Arizona : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 979/.03109252 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Southwest, New - History |
| Women - Southwest, New | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Southwest, New History 19th century |
| Southwest, New Social conditions 19th century | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ladies of the canyons |
| ISBN: | 0-8165-3231-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811450203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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