This Wild Spirit Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada

In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her life_s passion: _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 one 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 photographs and painting, , embroidery and beadwork, novels and travel writing, letters and diaries, poetry, plays, and posters to their experiences in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.This Wild Spirit is a portable archives of the best writing that women have done about the golden age of discoveyr and adventure in the Caniadna Rockies. It_s a remarkable book. Read it in a national park campground, late at night, as the bears wander by.__Ben GaddAbout the EditorColleen Skidmore is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.Skidmore, Colleen is the author of 'This Wild Spirit Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada', published 2006 under ISBN 9780888644664 and ISBN 0888644663.