Description
In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: “A day at the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, and even with a quiet day in camp to get things to ensure that the morrow’s conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood…I will hardly wait to be off again.” Vaux’s compulsion used to be shared by many ladies whose intellects, imaginations, and spirits rose to the challenge of the mountains between the overdue-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. This Wild Spirit explores a sampling of girls’s creative responses–in fiction and go back and forth writing, photographs and paintings, embroidery and beadwork, letters and diaries, poetry and posters–to their experiences within the Rocky Mountains of Canada.