What do you get when you combine gutsy bravado, a genteel Victorian society background and the rugged backdrop of the Southwestern cultural landscape? You get a colorful mosaic of New Mexico and the Four Corners region during the early years of the 20th century. Lesley Poling-Kempes’ Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest is a wonderful and inspiring story of women who wanted more to their lives than that set in their rather tediou


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