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For more than a century, Ghost Ranch has attracted people of enormous energy and creativity to the high desert of northern New Mexico. Occupying twenty-two thousand acres of the Piedra Lumbre basin, this fabled place was the love of artist Georgia OaKeeffeas life, and her depictions of the landscape catapulted Ghost Ranch to international recognition. Building on the history of the Abiquiu region that she told in Valley of Shining Stone, Ghost Ranch historian Lesley Poling-Kempes now unfolds the story of this celebrated retreat. She traces its transformation from el Rancho de los Brujos, a hideout for legendary outlaws, to a renowned cultural mecca and one of the Southwestas premier conference centers. First a dude ranch, Ghost Ranch became a magical sanctuary where the veil between heaven and earth seemed almost transparent. Focusing on those who visited from the 1920s and a30s until the 1990s, Poling-Kempes tells how OaKeeffe and others--from Boston Brahmin Carol Bishop Stanley to paleontologist Edwin H. Colbert, Los Alamos physicists to movie stars--created a unique community that evolved into the institution that is Ghost Ranch today. For this book, Poling-Kempes has drawn on information not available when Valley of Shining Stone was written. The biography of Juan de Dios Gallegos has been enhanced and definitively corrected. The Robert Wood Johnson (of Johnson & Johnson) years at Ghost Ranch are recounted with reminiscences from family members. And the memories of David McAlpin Jr. shed light on how the Princeton circle that included the Packs, the Johnson brothers, the Rockefellers, and the McAlpins ended up as summer neighbors on the high desert of New Mexico. After Arthur Packasgift of the ranch to the Presbyterian Church in 1955, Ghost Ranch became a spiritual home for thousands of people still awestruck by the landscape that OaKeeffe so lovingly committed to canvas; yet the care taken to protect Ghost Ranchas land and character has preserved its sense of intimacy. By relating its remarkable story, Poling-Kempes invites all visitors to better appreciate its place as an honored wilderness--and to help safeguard its future.
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- Title Ghost Ranch
- Author Lesley Poling-Kempes
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780816523474 / 0816523479
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.94 x 6.12 x 0.76 in (22.71 x 15.54 x 1.93 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New Mexico
- Library of Congress subjects Ghost Ranch (Abiquiu, N.M.) - History, Ghost Ranch (Abiquiu, N.M.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005005824
- Dewey Decimal Code 978.952
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