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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Place of Her Own: The Story of Elizabeth Garrett

A Place of Her Own: The Story of Elizabeth Garrett

Hall, Ruth

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralMusicians

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 1632936488
ISBN13: 9781632936486
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: Mar 1 2016
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Born blind, Elizabeth Garrett overcame many handicaps to become self-sufficient and a nationally-known musician, singer and composer. In an age when women were still strugglng for their independence, she developed a career that took her around the country. She neither sought nor accepted pity but, using her own resources, created a life and a philosophy that became a source of wonder to all who knew her. Daughter of controversial and famed frontier sheriff Pat Garrett (who was noted for ending the career of Billy the Kid) and a Hispanic mother, Elizabeth successfully bridged the time gap between the still lawless days of early New Mexico and the transitions brought about by World War II. A New Mexican who loved her native state, she was able to write of its beauties without ever having seen them. She wrote O Fair New Mexico, the state song, and was the state's first women's liberation advocate. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography.

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