{"product_id":"ladies-of-the-canyons-a-league-of-extraordinary-women-and-their-adventures-in-the-american-southwest-paperback","title":"Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLesley Poling-Kempes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLadies of the Canyons\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Their adventures were shared with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Henri, Edgar Hewett and Charles Lummis, Chief Tawakwaptiwa of the Hopi, and Hostiin Klah of the Navajo. Their journeys took them to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, into Canyon de Chelly, and across the high mesas of the Hopi, down through the Grand Canyon, and over the red desert of the Four Corners, to the pueblos along the Rio Grande and the villages in the mountains between Santa Fe and Taos. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Although their stories converge in the outback of the American Southwest, the saga of \u003ci\u003eLadies of the Canyons\u003c\/i\u003e is also the tale of Boston's Brahmins, the Greenwich Village avant-garde, the birth of American modern art, and Santa Fe's art and literary colony. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLadies of the Canyons\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesley Poling-Kempes is the author of many books about the American Southwest including \u003ci\u003eBone Horses\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the WILLA Literary Award in Contemporary Fiction and the Tony Hillerman Award for Best Fiction. Her nonfiction books include \u003ci\u003eGhost Ranch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eValley of Shining Stone: The Story of Abiquiu\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Abiquiu, New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63937187021149,"sku":"9780816524945","price":33.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/5558\/2813\/files\/UFRCUHV3WnRMZ2UrOUZieDEzVlFJQT09.webp?v=1774075839","url":"https:\/\/novellybooks.com\/products\/ladies-of-the-canyons-a-league-of-extraordinary-women-and-their-adventures-in-the-american-southwest-paperback","provider":"Novelly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}