Pie Town Woman: The Hard Life and Good Times of a New Mexico Homesteader

by MYERS JOAN

• ISBN13: 9780826322838
• ISBN10: 0826322832
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Pie Town, New Mexico, was immortalised in 1940 in the photographs of Russell Lee, who documented life in the high, dry farming community as part of the Farm Security Administration's New Deal survey of American life. This book tells the story of one of the women photographed by Lee. Doris Caudill lived on a homestead with her husband and daughter, who was six years old when Lee made his famous photographs, many of which show Doris planting her garden, canning vegetables, and milking cows. Now, more than sixty years later, Joan Myers, herself a distinguished photographer, introduces us to the woman behind the pictures.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Photographs	1	(42)
Russell Lee
PIE TOWN WOMAN Text
Joan Myers
A Woman of New Mexico	43	(12)
Writing on the Rocks	55	(6)
Nothing but Fun	61	(12)
That Tall One Is Mine	73	(10)
Peppermint Drops	83	(12)
Making Do	95	(6)
Digging Graves	101	(2)
The Last Frontier	103	(8)
The Photographer and His Wife	111	(10)
A Typical Day	121	(8)
Dancing up a Storm	129	(10)
Back to Pie Town	139	(10)
The Homestead	149	(12)
Witching for Water	161	(6)
The Dream Ends	167	(12)
Afterword	179	(4)
Notes	183	(5)
Photographs	188
Joan Myers