Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0816524947 ISBN13: 9780816524945 Release Date: September 2015 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Length: 384 Pages Weight: 1.25 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9" Ladies 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 w