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title	:	One Foot On the Rockies : Women and Creativity in the Modern American West Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture
author	:	Jensen, Joan M.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826315399
print isbn13	:	9780826315397
ebook isbn13	:	9780585192208
language	:	English
subject	Feminism and the arts--Southwest, New, Arts, American--Southwest, New, Arts, Modern--20th century--Southwest, New, Women artists--Southwest, New--Psychology.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	NX180.F4J46 1995eb
ddc	:	700/.82
subject	:	Feminism and the arts--Southwest, New, Arts, American--Southwest, New, Arts, Modern--20th century--Southwest, New, Women artists--Southwest, New--Psychology.

Page iii One Foot on the Rockies Women and Creativity in the Modern American West Joan M. Jensen AVolume in the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque

Page iv 1995 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED-FIRST EDITION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA JENSEN, JOAN M. ONE FOOT ON THE ROCKIES: WOMEN AND CREATIVITY IN THE MODERN AMERICAN WEST JOAN M. JENSEN. IST ED. P. CM. (CALVIN P. HORN LECTURES IN WESTERN HISTORY AND CULTURE) INCLUDES INDEX. CONTENTS OUT THERE, OUT WEST: CREATION STORIES AN ENERGY OF THEIR OWN: THE ARTISTS NAMING A PRICE, FINDING A SPACE: THE MARKETPLACE THE HUNGRY EYE: AUDIENCES WITH THESE WORDS: SILENCES/VOICES FROM THE BORDERLANDS: CREATING A MEMORY ISBN 0-8263-1596-8 (CLOTH) ISBN 0-8263-1539-9 (PAPERBACK) 1. FEMINISM AND THE ARTSSOUTHWEST, NEW. 2. ARTS, AMERICAN-SOUTHWEST, NEW. 3. ARTS, MODERN20TH CENTURYSOUTHWEST, NEW. 4. WOMEN ARTISTSSOUTHWEST, NEWPSYCHOLOGY. I. TITLE. II. SERIES. NX180.F4J46 1995 7001'.82DC20 94-18695 CIP DESIGNED BY SUE NIEWIAROWSKI EXCERPTS FROM JUDITH BACA INTERVIEWS (AUGUST 5-6, 1986) BY AMALIA MESA BAINS REPRINTED BY PERMISSION OF THE ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. EXCERPTS FROM THE INTERVIEW OF SUSAN BILLY BY SANDRA METZLER WITH DOT BROVARNEY REPRINTED BY PERMISSION OF THE MENDOCINO COUNTY MUSEUM. EXCERPTS FROM For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf BY NTOZAKE SHANGE, 1975, 1976, 1977 BY NTOZAKE SHANGE, REPRINTED WITH THE PERMISSION OF MACMILLAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. EXCERPTS FROM THE LETTERS OF JOHN AND GRACE HUDSON REPRINTED BY PERMISSION OF THE GRACE HUDSON MUSEUM, UKIAH, CA.

Page v CONTENTS Preface VII Introduction 3 Part One 1. Out There, Out West: Creation Stories 15 2. An Energy of Their Own: The Artists 37 3. Naming a Price, Finding a Space: The Marketplace 59 4. The Hungry Eye: Audiences 83 Part Two 5. With These Words: Silences/Voices 107 6. From the Borderlands: Creating a Memory 131 Notes 153 Index 171

Page vii PREFACE This book is the outgrowth of a series of four talks I gave for the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture at the University of New Mexico in November 1991. After the first talk I had the chance to talk to Calvin Horn about his publishing ventures in western history. I was enormously impressed by his dedication to western history and by his contributions to that history through his many publications as well as his sponsorship of this lecture series. I thank him for that support. Many other people also helped make possible the Horn Lectures on Women in the Modern West. Dick Etulain invited me to speak on women in the twentieth century West. He did not say which women or which West he had in mind. I know a lot of the new western women's history because I have read much of it and because I am one of a number of historians who wanted to replace the older image of western women of a decade agomainly Anglo pioneers and prostitutes-with a new multicultural image, and to rewrite western history with women at the center. Others, not I, have done most of the work in creating this new western women's history, but I suppose Dick thought I would bring some sort of synthesis of this work to the lectures. I began this research on western women by reading the work not only of historians, but of folklorists, American Studies experts, anthropologists, ethnologists, literary experts, art historians, women's studies scholars, and others. Despite the richness and variety of those works, I still lacked a focus. The more I read about the arts created by western women, the more the women disappeared because I had no single pat-

Page viii tern within which they could move. There seemed to be a lot of creative women in the West, but no pattern to explain their lives. At first I looked for a center around which to create a pattern. Soon I realized that rather than centering the patterns that were emerging among the western women I was coming to know, I must strike out in a new direction, allowing a number of patterns to come together without a center but with many borders.

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