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From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand theme of United States history-our restless, relentless westward movement--but sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. In colorful, spirited stories, she weaves a lyrical reconsideration of the processes that created, gave meaning to, and ultimately shattered the West.Twenty Thousand Roadsintroduces a cast of women mapping the world on their own terms, often crossing political and cultural boundaries defined by male-dominated institutions and perceptions. Scharff examines the faint traces left by Sacagawea and revisits Susan Magoffin's famed honeymoon journey down the Santa Fe Trail. We also meet educated women like historian Grace Hebard and government extension agent Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, who mapped the West with different voyages and visions. Scharff introduces women whose lives gave shape to the forces of gender, race, region, and modernity; participants in exploration, war, politics, empire, and struggles for social justice; and movers and shakers of everyday family life. This book powerfully and poetically shows us that to understand the American West, we must examine the lives of women who both built and resisted American expansion. Scharff remaps western history as she reveals how moving women have shaped our past, present, and future.

This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through \"negotiation\"-a concept that accounts for artistic practices outside the duality of resistance/accommodation-and \"self-fashioning,\" Marci R. McMahon demonstrates how the very sites of domesticity are used to engage the many political and recurring debates about race, gender, and immigration affecting Mexicanas and Chicanas from the early twentieth century to today.Domestic Negotiationscovers a range of archival sources and cultural productions, including the self-fashioning of the \"chili queens\" of San Antonio, Texas, Jovita González's romance novelCaballero, the home economics career and cookbooks of Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, Sandra Cisneros's \"purple house controversy\" and her acclaimed textThe House on Mango Street, Patssi Valdez's self-fashioning and performance of domestic space in Asco and as a solo artist, Diane Rodríguez's performance of domesticity in Hollywood television and direction of domestic roles in theater, and Alma López's digital prints of domestic labor in Los Angeles. With intimate close readings, McMahon shows how Mexicanas and Chicanas shape domestic space to construct identities outside of gendered, racialized, and xenophobic rhetoric.

This chapter shifts the focus of Southwest history back to New Mexico as it analyses the memoir, We Fed Them Cactus, written by Nuevomexicana cultural broker, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca. The memoir allows Cabeza de Baca to (re)claim her herencia, or inheritance, as she documents the historical implications of U.S imperialism and the ways in which she suffers the impacts of physical and cultural displacement in the burgeoning U.S. Southwest. This chapter also argues that Cabeza de Baca employs a unique narrative style and voice that is androgynous – a tactic that allows her access to the masculine space of historical documentation and storytelling that was then dominated by men. Through her work, Cabeza de Baca preserves the stories of her Hispano New Mexican past, she attempts to maintain a social structure on the verge of loss, and she demonstrates her querencia, or deep abiding love for her homeland.

Sample traditional New Mexican holiday fare and learn about Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert, the late author and home economist who helped preserve New Mexican foods through a cookbook published in 1949. Amy Davis, an event coordinator, said the discussion, led by Tey Diana Rebolledo, a Spanish Language and Literature professor at University of New Mexico, will cover the importance of Gilbert's efforts to preserve the culinary part of New Mexican culture.

Actually, it was gaining popularity as far back as 1931. In her cookbook \"Historic Cookery,\" first published that year, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert said there are two reasons for the popularity of New Mexican food. The first is that it tastes good, and the second is that the basic ingredients -- chile, beans, lamb's quarters (a wild plant similar to spinach), goat cheese and whole grain cereals, for example -- are good for you. Gilbert was the first home economics extension agent in northern New Mexico. She wrote her cookbook as a free publication distributed throughout the state by the New Mexico State University Extension Service. The blurb on the back cover of the small cookbook says it is possibly the earliest cookbook of New Mexican foods published, and was the first to give exact measurements and instructions for preparing the traditional cuisine. \"The recipes in 'Historic Cookery' are an amalgamation of Indian, Spanish, Mexican and American. They are typically New Mexican,\" Gilbert said in the introduction to her cookbook.

Actually, it was gaining popularity as far back as 1931. In her cookbook \"Historic Cookery,\" first published that year, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert said there are two reasons for the popularity of New Mexican food. The first is that it tastes good, and the second is that the basic ingredients -- chile, beans, lamb's quarters (a wild plant similar to spinach), goat cheese and whole grain cereals, for example -- are good for you. Gilbert was the first home economics extension agent in northern New Mexico. She wrote her cookbook as a free publication distributed throughout the state by the New Mexico State University Extension Service. The blurb on the back cover of the small cookbook says it is possibly the earliest cookbook of New Mexican foods published, and was the first to give exact measurements and instructions for preparing the traditional cuisine. Another cookbook, the \"Mexican Cookbook\" by Erna Fergusson, was first published in 1934. You may have heard of Erna Fergusson. Born in 1888, she wrote about New Mexico and promoted tourism in the Southwest with her Indian Detours business. An Albuquerque library is named after her. She, too, loved and wrote about the simple food served in New Mexican homes. Her 118-page cookbook includes menus as well as regional food lore.