Ladies of the Canyons

Ladies of the Canyons is the story of "new women" stepping boldly into the new world of inconspicuous success, ambitious failure, and the personal challenges experienced by women and men during the emergence of the modern age. 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. 384 pages.

• By Lesley Poling-Kempes
• Paper
• Trim size: 6" x 9"
• ISBN: 978-0816524945