This wild spirit : women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada /

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Edition:First electronic edition, 2012.
Imprint:Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2012.
©2006
Description:1 online resource (371 pages) : ePub file
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11306458
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Other authors / contributors:Skidmore, Colleen Marie, 1957- editor, writer of introduction.
ISBN:9780888645876
0888645872
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Other form:This wild spirit.: Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, ©2006. Mountain cairns
This wild spirit.: First edition, first printing, 2006. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2006. ©2006 Mountain cairns Mountain cairns : a series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
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Summary:In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: "A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp to get things in order for the morrow's conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood...I can hardly wait to be off again." Vaux's compulsion was shared by many women whose intellects, imaginations, and spirits rose to the challenge of the mountains between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This Wild Spirit explores a sampling of women's creative responses--in fiction and travel writing, photographs and paintings, embroidery and beadwork, letters and diaries, poetry and posters--to their experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.
Physical Description:1 online resource (371 pages) : ePub file
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780888645876
0888645872