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| Title: | This Wild Spirit
: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada |
| Series: | (Mountain Cairns) |
| Author: | Colleen Skidmore (ed) |
| ISBN: | 0888644663 : 9780888644664 |
| Illustrations: | b/w & colour photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 475 |
| Weight: | .735 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - April 2006 |
| List Price: | 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Social & cultural history: Womens studies: Canada: Active outdoor pursuits |
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.
Hosts of Mountain Oasis (1929); Laggan to Maligne Lake and Tête Jaune Cache and Return (1908); The Jasper Story (1955); Doubletake (1992); By Car and by Cowcatcher (1887); Our Wild Westland (1889); The Rocky Mountains (1893); A Woman Tenderfoot (1900); Asocial Departure (1893); The Rocky Mountains and British Columbia (1910); Lady Merton, Colonist (1910); Glacier House Scrapbook (1897-1910); Our Dear Mrs Young (1934); Camping in the Canadian Rockies (1907); A Maiden Voyage on the 'New' Lake (1911); Letters to Dr Walcott (1912); Untrodden Ways (1908); Flowers of the Canadian Rockies (1945); Flora of the Saskatchewan and Athabasca River Tributaries (1908); Haunts of the Wild Flowers of the Canadian Rockies (1911); The Mountain Wildflowers of Western Canada (1907); Dearest Mother (1930-1933); Why and Wherefore (1911); An Explanation (1911); Old Indian Trails ofthe Canadian Rockies (1911); Laggan to Maligne Lake and Tête Jaune Cache and Return (1908); Trip to Jasper Park, Rocky Mountains, Canada (1911); A Recently Explored Lake in the Rocky Range of Canada (1909); Hunter of Peace (1993); The Alpine Club of Canada (1907); Mountain Climbing for Women (1909); Breaking the Way (1904); A Graduating Climb (1910); Graduation (1918); Portrait of a Giant (1946); The North-West-Canada (1909); Canada's Mountains (1954); Mountaineer and Mountains (1957); Sonnet (1963); Jasper National Park (1924); The Kicking Horse Trail (1927); Honour Memory of Edith Cavell (1926); Marilyn Monroe vs. Scenery at Roxy (1954); Index.
