More Than Petticoats

Remarkable New Mexico Women

Plot

Presents twelve profiles of notable New Mexico women, including the Harvey Girls, railroad waitresses and bearers of culture and refinement in the untamed frontier; Mother Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto, pioneers of education; Nampeyo, master potter and preserver of Hopi culture; trailblazing feminist and anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons; modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffee; art patron Mabel Dodge Luhan; and curandera Jesusita Aragon.