Grand Canyon Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Canyon Women write by Betty Leavengood. This book was released on 2004. Grand Canyon Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grand Canyon Women tells the humorous and heartbreaking stories of twenty-six remarkable women--Native Americans, river runners, scientists, wranglers, architects, rangers, hikers, and housewives--each of whom, in the midst of nature's indiscriminate universe, discovers her identity.
Breaking Into the Current
Breaking Into the Current - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breaking Into the Current write by Louise Teal. This book was released on 2016-12-15. Breaking Into the Current available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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."
Ladies of the Canyons
Ladies of the Canyons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ladies of the Canyons write by Lesley Poling-Kempes. This book was released on 2015-09-17. Ladies of the Canyons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 who would follow them. 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. Although their stories converge in the outback of the American Southwest, the saga of Ladies of the Canyons 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. 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.
Canyon Solitude
Canyon Solitude - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canyon Solitude write by Patricia McCairen. This book was released on 1998. Canyon Solitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author describes her experiences rafting down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon
Women and the Grand Canyon
Women and the Grand Canyon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and the Grand Canyon write by Lisa D Madsen. This book was released on 1983*. Women and the Grand Canyon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
