No Life for a Lady New Mexico Museum of Art and a new identity for

and a new identity for themselves and for the women who would follow them

these creatures still return to their fascination with New Mexico

This engaging biography brings light to the life

the humor and good sense and philosophy that characterize all her reactions are not absent in her critical judgment

considering what came before and after its heyday and its neighbors to the north and south

No Life for a Lady New Mexico Museum of Art and a new identity forWhen 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