More than petticoats

de Beverly West · Publicada por primera vez en 2001

Presents twelve profiles of notable New Mexico women, including the Harvey Girls, railroad waitresses and bearers of culture and refinement in the untamed frontier; Mother Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto, pioneers of education; Nampeyo, master potter and preserver of Hopi culture; trailblazing feminist and anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons; modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffee; art patron Mabel Dodge Luhan; and curandera Jesusita Aragon.