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More than Petticoats presents twelve portraits of influential New Mexico women, highlighting their diverse roles in shaping the state's history. From the spirited Harvey Girls and frontier railroad waitresses to Mother Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto, pioneers of education, the book traces the contributions of Nampeyo, a master potter preserving Hopi culture; Elsie Clews Parsons, a trailblazing feminist and anthropologist; modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe; art patron Mabel Dodge Luhan; and curandera Jesúsita Aragon. Each profile illuminates how these women brought culture, refinement, and progress to the untamed Southwest frontier.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Beverly West
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