TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goodman,Susan
AU  - Dawson,Carl
TI  - Mary Austin and the American West /Susan Goodman, Carl Dawson
SN  - 9780520942264
AV  - PS3501 .M379 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Austin, Mary,
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - History
KW  - Western stories
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Prelim. pages; 2; Desert places : 1868-1892 --; Owens Valley : 1892-1900 --; Independence : 1900-1905 --; Carmel : 1904-1907 --; In Italy and England : 1907-1910 --; New York : 1911-1914 --; The Village : 1914-1920 --; The call of the West : 1920-1924 --; Santa Fe : 1924-1929 --; Indian detours and Spanish arts --; Last years : 1929-1934 --; The accounting; 2; b
N2  - Mary Austin (1868-1934)-eccentric, independent, and unstoppable-was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, ""changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be."" At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert
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