This Wild Spirit
Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada
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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.
Table of contents
| Front Cover | 1 |
|---|---|
| Title Page | 3 |
| Copyright | 5 |
| Dedication | 6 |
| Contents | 8 |
| Abbreviations | 13 |
| Acknowledgements | 14 |
| Introduction | 18 |
| 1 Taking a Deep Interest: Métis and Aboriginal Women | 31 |
| "Hosts of Mountain Oasis" (1929) | Munro | 52 |
| "Laggan to Maligne Lake and Tête Jaunce Cache and Return" (1908) | Adams | 62 |
| "The Jasper Story" (1955) | Park Gowan | 72 |
| "Doubletake" (1992) | Lippard | 92 |
| 2 Being a Woman, I Wanted to Tell About Them: Literary Travellers | 107 |
| "By Car and by Cowcatcher" (1887) | MacDonald | 128 |
| "Our Wild Westland" (1889) | Spragge | 136 |
| "The Rocky Mountains" (1893) | Aberdeen | 142 |
| A Woman Tenderfoot (1900) | Seton-Thompson | 148 |
| A Social Departure (1893) | Duncan | 164 |
| "The Rocky Mountains and British Columbia" (1910) | Cran | 174 |
| Lady Merton, Colonist (1910) | Ward | 184 |
| 3 Free Among the Everlasting Hills: Botanists and Brides | 191 |
| "Glacier House Scrapbook (1897-1910) | Various | 210 |
| "Our Dear Mrs. Young" (1934) | Schäffer Warren | 222 |
| "Camping in the Canadian Rockies" (1907) | Vaux | 226 |
| "A Maiden Woyage on the 'New' Lake" (1911) | Schäffer | 232 |
| "Letters to Dr. Walcott" (1912) | Vaux | 234 |
| "Untrodden Ways" (1908) | Schäffer | 258 |
| "Flowers of the Canadian Rockies (1945) | Vaux Walcott | 266 |
| "Flora of the Saskatchewan and Athabasca River Tributaries" (1908) | Schäffer | 270 |
| "Haunts of the Wild Flowers of the Canadian Rockies" (1911) | Schäffer | 274 |
| "The Mountain Wildflowers of Western Canada" (1907) | Henshaw | 280 |
| "Dearest Mother" (1930-1933) | Robb Whyte | 288 |
| COLOUR PLATES | 298 |
| 4 At Civilization's Limits: Exploring Women | 307 |
| "Why and Wherefore" (1911) | Schäffer | 324 |
| "An Explanation" (1911) | Schäffer | 326 |
| "Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies" (1911) | Portland Telegram | 334 |
| “Laggan to Maligne Lake andTête Jaune Cache and Return” (1908) | Adams | 340 |
| “Trip to Jasper Park,Rocky Mountains, Canada” (1911) | Sharpless | 348 |
| “A Recently Explored Lake in theRocky Range of Canada” (1909) | Schäffer | 360 |
| Hunter of Peace (1993) | Stearns | 374 |
| 5 On the Rockies Stark: Mountaineers | 379 |
| “The Alpine Club of Canada” (1907) | Parker | 392 |
| “Mountain Climbingfor Women” (1909) | Crawford | 398 |
| “Breaking the Way” (1904) | Schäffer | 406 |
| “A Graduating Climb” (1910) | Johns | 410 |
| “Graduation” (1918) | Edwards | 418 |
| “Portrait of a Giant” (1946) | Engelhard | 422 |
| “The North-West—Canada” (1909) | O'Neill | 432 |
| “Canada’s Mountains” (1954) | Woods | 434 |
| “Mountaineer and Mountains” (1957) | Woods | 436 |
| “Sonnet” (1963) | Ferguson | 440 |
| 6 Wild and Solitary and Beautiful: Mountain Culture / Mountain Wilderness | 443 |
| “Jasper National Park” (1924) | Todd | 460 |
| The Kicking Horse Trail (1927) | Williams | 466 |
| “Honor Memory of Edith Cavell” (1926) | Canadian National Railways Magazine | 472 |
| “Marilyn Monroe vs.Scenery at Roxy” (1954) | Crowther | 476 |
| Colour Plates | 478 |
| Selected Bibliography | 486 |
| Permissions | 496 |
| Index | 498 |
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Book details
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Collection
- Mountain Cairns: A series on the history and culture of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Categories
- Climbing & mountaineering, Gender studies: women & girls, Sociology
- Publication date
- January 2012
- Pages
- 508
- Chapters
- 62
- Language
- English
- ISBN EPUB
- 9780888645876
- ISBN Paper
- 9780888644664