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Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest . By Lesley Poling-Kempes. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. viii + 375 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.) There are two especially gratifying elements of Lesley Poling-Kempes’s Ladies of the Canyons. The first is that the members of her “league of extraordinary women” come together in the Southwest much like the members of television’s A-Team assemble for their maverick adventures. We first meet Natalie Curtis Burlin, a brilliant and talented pianist born to Manhattan’s elite, on Washington Square. When she suffered a breakdown, her brother invited her to the Southwest to recover her health. She became a convert to the region’s landscape, rugged outdoor activity, and, …
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