Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
by Lesley Poling-Kempes 
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"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.Tags
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Interesting, enlightening, thought-provoking, coincidental! Thoroughly researched! A story about independent, Eastern, talented, cultured, usually moneyed women who find their way to new lives in New Mexico. My only problem was keeping track of the women and their stories.
An interesting book that profiles the lives of several intrepid women who lived in New Mexico in the early 1900s. The author did an incredible about of research but I think she bogged down in the weeds by trying to include a lot of miscellany detail that did not add to the stories about 4 main women.
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Lesley Poling-Kempes is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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Common Knowledge
- Important places
- American Southwest
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 979.03109252 — History & geography History of North America Great Basin and Pacific Slope region of United States
- LCC
- F786 .P85 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history New Southwest. Colorado River, Canyon, and Valley
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- 85
- Popularity
- 376,400
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.61)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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