A Quilt of words : : women's diaries, letters & original accounts of life in the Southwest, 1860-1960 / [electronic resource] / [compiled by] Sharon Niederman.. — Boulder, Colo. : : Johnson Books,, c1988.. — 220 p. : : ill. ; 24 cm.
Introduction -- Agnes Miner: The story of a Colorado pioneer -- Flora Spiegelberg: Reminiscences of a Jewish bride of the Santa Fe Trail -- Yavapai woman speaks -- Mary Annetta Coleman Pomeroy: My life story -- Mary L. Stright: A missionary teacher's first winter in Jemez -- Marietta Palmer Wetherill: Chatelaine of the Chaco -- E.J. Elliott: Fighting death in the desert -- Isabella Greenway: A charmed girlhood -- Katherine Davis: Memoir of a health-seeker -- Frances Beebe: I never was a person to get lonely -- Beatrice Nogare: Life in the southern Colorado coal mining camps -- Mary Cabot Wheelwright: Journey towards understanding -- Grace Mott Johnson: Two weeks in New Mexico -- Elanor Williams: Rebel in the west -- Marge Armijo: our times were special.