Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West

Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West......Page 3
Acknowledgments......Page 8
CONTENTS......Page 9
FOREWORD......Page 11
About Pikes Peak Library District......Page 13
The Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame......Page 16
An Introduction to the Extraordinary Women......Page 23
Marie Guiraud:A Remarkable Character......Page 43
Laura Bell McDaniel:Queen of the Colorado City Tenderloin......Page 55
From Breeding Persian Cats to Wrapping Candy: Working Women of Colorado SpringsIn the 1920s......Page 69
Virginia Donaghe McClurg:Mesa Verde Crusader......Page 85
Vida Ellison & The Manitou Cliff Dwellings......Page 99
Alice Bemis Taylor......Page 111
Alice Stewart Hill, Colorado Springs’ First Wild Flower Artist: Her Family & Her Friends......Page 121
In Her Garden......Page 134
“Helen of Colorado”: Helen Hunt Jackson, Colorado Springs, & the Making of an Indian Activist......Page 137
Helen Hunt Jackson & the Rhetoric of Humanization: Creating a Rhetorical Space Between Traditional Feminine & Masculine Spheres in the Late 19th Century......Page 163
They Came To Educate: The Sisters of Loretto in the Rocky Mountain West, 1852—Present......Page 177
Gretchen McRae: Civil Rights & Political Activist of Colorado Springs & the United States, 1924—1966......Page 201
Maggie Smith Hathaway: Montana’s Unsung Progressive Era Reformist......Page 235
Dr. Caroline Spencer & Colorado Springs’ Radicals for Reform......Page 255
“Someday the women are goingto run this government”: Lillian Kerr, A Colorado Springs Legend......Page 301
Alimony For Men New Cry......Page 314
How Colorado Laws Discriminate Against Women......Page 317
The Corset Conflagration, or Women’s Liberation, 1923......Page 329
Selected Bibliography......Page 337
Archives Collections by or About Women in Special Collections, Pike Peak Library District......Page 341
INDEX......Page 347