Ladies Of The Canyons


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Ladies Of The Canyons


Ladies Of The Canyons
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Author : Lesley Poling-Kempes
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2015-09-17

Ladies Of The Canyons written by Lesley Poling-Kempes and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


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.



Ladies Of The Canyon


Ladies Of The Canyon
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Author : Douglas Wood
language : en
Publisher: Prospective Press
Release Date : 2020-09

Ladies Of The Canyon written by Douglas Wood and has been published by Prospective Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09 with categories.


A young television actress, recovering from drug addiction, comes under the care and guidance of an older, former child star who also battled addiction. Soon, a series of bizarre events leads them into a dark and complex relationship and an uncertain future.



Ghost Ranch


Ghost Ranch
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Author : Lesley Poling-Kempes
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2022-05-31

Ghost Ranch written by Lesley Poling-Kempes and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-31 with History categories.


For more than a century, Ghost Ranch has attracted people of enormous energy and creativity to the high desert of northern New Mexico. Occupying twenty-two thousand acres of the Piedra Lumbre basin, this fabled place was the love of artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s life, and her depictions of the landscape catapulted Ghost Ranch to international recognition. Building on the history of the Abiquiu region that she told in Valley of Shining Stone, Ghost Ranch historian Lesley Poling-Kempes now unfolds the story of this celebrated retreat. She traces its transformation from el Rancho de los Brujos, a hideout for legendary outlaws, to a renowned cultural mecca and one of the Southwest’s premier conference centers. First a dude ranch, Ghost Ranch became a magical sanctuary where the veil between heaven and earth seemed almost transparent. Focusing on those who visited from the 1920s and ’30s until the 1990s, Poling-Kempes tells how O’Keeffe and others—from Boston Brahmin Carol Bishop Stanley to paleontologist Edwin H. Colbert, Los Alamos physicists to movie stars—created a unique community that evolved into the institution that is Ghost Ranch today. For this book, Poling-Kempes has drawn on information not available when Valley of Shining Stone was written. The biography of Juan de Dios Gallegos has been enhanced and definitively corrected. The Robert Wood Johnson (of Johnson & Johnson) years at Ghost Ranch are recounted with reminiscences from family members. And the memories of David McAlpin Jr. shed light on how the Princeton circle that included the Packs, the Johnson brothers, the Rockefellers, and the McAlpins ended up as summer neighbors on the high desert of New Mexico. After Arthur Pack’s gift of the ranch to the Presbyterian Church in 1955, Ghost Ranch became a spiritual home for thousands of people still awestruck by the landscape that O’Keeffe so lovingly committed to canvas; yet the care taken to protect Ghost Ranch’s land and character has preserved its sense of intimacy. By relating its remarkable story, Poling-Kempes invites all visitors to better appreciate its place as an honored wilderness—and to help safeguard its future.



Canyon Of Remembering


Canyon Of Remembering
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Author : Lesley Poling-Kempes
language : en
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Release Date : 2000

Canyon Of Remembering written by Lesley Poling-Kempes and has been published by Texas Tech University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.


Just outside of Santa Fe, in the land of The Milagro Beanfield War, a group of pilgrims converge on the edge of a canyon for a last chance at life.



Breaking Into The Current


Breaking Into The Current
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Author : Louise Teal
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1994-02

Breaking Into The Current written by Louise Teal and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


In 1973, Marilyn Sayre gave up her job as a computer programmer and became the first woman in twenty years to run a commercial boat through the Grand Canyon. Georgie White had been the first, back in the 1950s, but it took time before other women broke into guiding passengers down the Colorado River. This book profiles eleven of the first full-season Grand Canyon boatwomen, weaving together their various experiences in their own words. Breaking Into the Current is a story of romance between women and a place. Each woman tells a part of every Canyon boatwoman's story: when Marilyn Sayre talks about leaving the Canyon, when Ellen Tibbets speaks of crew camaraderie, or when Martha Clark recalls the thrill of white water, each tells how all were involved in the same romance. All the boatwomen have stories to tell of how they first came to the Canyon and why they stayed. Some speak of how they balanced their passion for being in the Canyon against the frustration of working in a traditionally male-oriented occupation, where today women account for about fifteen percent of the Canyon's commercial river guides. As river guides in love with the Canyon and their work, these women have followed their hearts. "I've done a lot," says Becca Lawton, "but there's been nothing like holding those oars in my hands and putting my boat exactly where I wanted it. Nothing."



No Place For A Lady


No Place For A Lady
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Author : Shelby Tisdale
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2023-06-20

No Place For A Lady written by Shelby Tisdale and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Marjorie Lambert's life story is intricately entwined in the development of archaeology in the American Southwest. In Shelby Tisdale's compelling biography, Lambert's work as an archaeologist, museologist, and museum curator in Santa Fe comes to life and serves as inspiration for today.



Valley Of Shining Stone


Valley Of Shining Stone
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Author : Lesley Poling-Kempes
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1997-07

Valley Of Shining Stone written by Lesley Poling-Kempes and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-07 with History categories.


North by northwest from old Santa Fe is the winding road to Abiquiu (ah-be-cue'), Ghost Ranch, and el Valle de la Piedra Lumbre, the Valley of Shining Stone: mythical names in a near-mythical place, captured for the ages in the famous paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe saw the magic of sandstone cliffs and turquoise skies, but her life and death here are only part of the story. Reading almost like a novel, this book spills over with other legends buried deep in time, just as some of North America's oldest dinosaur bones lie hidden beneath the valley floor. Here are the stories of Pueblo Indians who have claimed this land for generations. Here, too, are Utes, Navajos, Jicarilla Apaches, Hispanos, and Anglos-many lives tangled together, yet also separate and distinct. Underlying these stories is the saga of Ghost Ranch itself, a last living vestige of the Old West ideal of horses, cowboys, and wide-open spaces. Readers will meet a virtual Who's Who of visitors from "dude ranch" days, ranging from such luminaries as Willa Cather, Ansel Adams, and Charles Lindbergh to World War II scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues, who were working on the top-secret atomic bomb in nearby Los Alamos. Moving on through the twentieth century, the book describes struggles to preserve the valley's wild beauty in the face of land development and increased tourism. Just as the Piedra Lumbre landscape has captivated countless wayfarers over hundreds of years, so its stories cast their own spell. Indispensable for travelers, pure pleasure for history buffs and general readers, these pages are a magic carpet to a magic land: Abiquiu, Ghost Ranch, the Valley of Shining Stone.



The Harvey Girls


The Harvey Girls
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Author : Lesley Poling-Kempes
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-05-07

The Harvey Girls written by Lesley Poling-Kempes and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with History categories.


The award-winning history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway -- and went on to shape the American Southwest From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey Girls went west to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway. At a time when there were "no ladies west of Dodge City and no women west of Albuquerque," they came as waitresses, but many stayed and settled, founding the struggling cattle and mining towns that dotted the region. Interviews, historical research, and photographs help re-create the Harvey Girl experience. The accounts are personal, but laced with the history the women lived: the dust bowl, the depression, and anecdotes about some of the many famous people who ate at the restaurants--Teddy Roosevelt, Shirley Temple, Bob Hope, to name a few. The Harvey Girls was awarded the winner of the 1991 New Mexico Press Women's ZIA award.



Laurel Canyon


Laurel Canyon
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Author : Michael Walker
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2010-05-01

Laurel Canyon written by Michael Walker and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-01 with Music categories.


Michael Walker’s Laurel Canyon presents the inside story of the once hottest rock and roll neighborhood in LA. In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later, the music made in Laurel Canyon continues to pour from radios, iPods, and concert stages around the world. During the canyon's golden era, the musicians who lived and worked there scored dozens of landmark hits, from "California Dreamin'" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" to "It's Too Late," selling tens of millions of records and resetting the thermostat of pop culture. In Laurel Canyon, veteran journalist Michael Walker tells the inside story of this unprecedented gathering of some of the baby boomer's leading musical lights—including Joni Mitchell; Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the Eagles; and Frank Zappa, to name just a few—who turned Los Angeles into the music capital of the world and forever changed the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed.



Grand Canyon Women


Grand Canyon Women
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Author : Betty Leavengood
language : en
Publisher: West Winds Press
Release Date : 1999

Grand Canyon Women written by Betty Leavengood and has been published by West Winds Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


The Grand Canyon is as well known for its intrepid adventurers as it is for its overwhelming beauty. While the most well-known adventurers are men, many of the Canyon's heroes are heroines. In Grand Canyon Women, Betty Leavengood corrects this omission from history and tells the stories of these daring, remarkable individuals. River runners, scientists, wranglers, architects, rangers, and housewives, these women braved the remote and rugged terrain of the Grand Canyon. Some were there as a result of circumstance, while others sought the landscape with passion and purpose. Most met the challenges of the Canyon; others suffered a darker fate. All of them, however, were changed forever by their experiences. For each of the fifteen women profiled, Betty Leavengood shows how, in the midst of nature's indiscriminate universe, each woman discovers her identity. October 20, 1928 was a crisp autumn day in Green River, Utah....Bessie and Glen Hyde launched their scow onto the Green River and began the journey of their lives. From here, the two would join the Colorado and 'float' 660 miles through the Grand Canyon for some forty-nine days with plans to reach Needles, California....But in the late '20s the section of the Colorado that ran through Cataract Canyon was one of its fiercest and wildest. It harbored treacherous whirlpools, deep holes, obtrusive rocks that could wrap a boat like a sheet of paper.... Once you began the run, there was no turning back From tales of bold exploration to moments of crushing defeat, from places of life-defining discovery to the tidy homes of rural routine, this collection takes the reader on both humorous and heart wrenching journeys. These women willinspire the reader, and their stories will enrich anyone's stay at the Grand Canyon.