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Pie Town Woman

Pie Town Woman: The Hard Life and Good Times of a New Mexico Homesteader
Author
Joan Myers
Published
2001
Recommended
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Why it’s on the list: The story of Doris Caudill, one of the homesteaders Russell Lee photographed at Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940 — the woman behind the most famous images ever made of Catron County. Myers, herself a photographer, braids Caudill’s Depression-era homestead life with the story of Russell and Jean Lee’s stay and her own reflections on memory and photographs.

Where I heard about it

  • Debbie Lee — named it in Part 2 of her four-part Catron County Centennial History, posted publicly by the Catron County Historical Society (April 2022).

About this edition

University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Connections

  • Russell Lee — whose 1940 FSA photographs the book is built around
  • the private Catron County research page — the same decades, the same material culture
  • No Life for a Lady — the other woman’s account, a generation earlier

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