More Than Petticoats: Remarkable New Mexico Women

More than Petticoats

by Beverly West

Twelve absorbing biographies of outstanding women from New Mexico's past.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

132 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2001

About the author

Beverly West is a bestselling developmental editor, ghostwriter and publishing brand strategist. Bev specializes in big think books by thought leaders in the areas of entrepreneurialism, sales, marketing and memoir.

Bev’s recent projects include Flip the Script by the incomparable sales guru Oren Klaff (Portfolio) Luck Comes to Visit It Doesn’t Come to Stay (Forbes) by iconic impresario Charles Koppelman (Forbes), Innovation in Translationk How Big Ideas Really Happen by visionary innovator Dave Ferrera, and Youth Nation by Matt Britton.
Bev’s work regularly appears in Forbesand Fortune. Her work has also appeared in Wired,US Weekly, Redbook, Vogue, Body and Soul, Nylon, Real Simple, Paper, Self, Marie Claire, Metrosource, and People Magazine.
Bev’s books have been featured in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Boston Herald, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times, the Miami Herald, the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the Daily Oklahoman. Additionally, Bev was a national spokesperson for Netflix, and the lead writer for Monster.com’s Work/Life Balance area.

Bev lives with her husband Jason, 2 pugs, 1 rescue mutt named Olive, and one very confident cat on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Reviews

[SouthWestZippy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good collection of women to write about. To name a few: Mary Colter, The Harvey Girls, Mable Dodge Luhan, Maris Martinez and Georgia O'Keefee. You can see the research there but was lacking in accuracy. I found a few things like places to not be correct. It is also a snippet into each of their lives with leaves you wanting more and some of the short stories are a dry read. Still found it interesting to read and did learn a few new things about these New Mexico woman.

[Laura Bang · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked this up in ABQ and it's fine as a brief snapshot of New Mexico women's history. But it's 14 biographies in about 140 pages, so there's not a lot of depth, and in some of the bios there was more time spent on historical context than on describing the woman's life. So it's interesting, but only superficially.

[Judy · Rating 5 out of 5]

truly remarkable women of all cultures, creating, supporting, and preserving.

[Jody · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad. Good choices of subjects, although could have had more ladies with firmer ties to NM, and some ranch women. Needed better editing and checking. The Navajo nation is in NW NM, not SW. Canyon de Chelly is in AZ, not NM. Could have been a much better book, but I am glad I read it.