No Life for a Lady New Mexico Museum of Art through successive centuries of encroachment

through successive centuries of encroachment and outright warfare

This engaging biography brings light to the life

Rush was born in Indiana to Quaker parents and left home at age sixteen to attend college

from prehistory to the mid-nineteenth century

No Life for a Lady New Mexico Museum of Art through successive centuries of encroachmentWhen Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874, the term "Wild West" was a reality, not a clich. In those days cowboys didn't know they were picturesque, horse rustlers were to be handled as seemed best on the occasion, and young ladies thought nothing of punching cows and hunting grizzlies in between school terms. "[T]opnotch Americana, honestly and entertainingly told."The New Yorker "The author's reminiscences make vivid