Under Mountain Shadows - William D. Frank

Under Mountain Shadows

Kay Kershaw, Lesbian Eco-Warrior of the Pacific Northwest
Buch | Softcover
241 Seiten
2024
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9392-7 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
Examines Kay Kershaw’s tremendous influence on conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest and on LGBTQ+ rights in the United States.
From her world-famous dude ranch in Washington state's Yakima County, Kay Kershaw exerted tremendous influence on conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest and, tangentially, on LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. After gaining local renown in sports and aviation, she established the ranch at Goose Prairie with her first partner, Pat Kane--a fraught undertaking in a region closely associated with the John Birch Society. Operating under the guise of two "spinsters," Kershaw and her later life-partner Isabelle Lynn guarded their privacy closely, but local encroachment by the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry forced them into the public arena as environmentalists.

In partnership with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Kershaw and Lynn spearheaded a decades-long campaign to save the ancient forests and ecosystem of Washington's Cascade Range. In the process, Kay and Isabelle's devoted relationship proved a marked contrast to Justice Douglas' own turbulent love life, perhaps affecting his perception of the law and his precedent-setting judicial opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which provided the basis for major LGBTQ+ Supreme Court decisions in the twenty-first century as well as Roe v. Wade in 1973.

William D. Frank is the author of two international award-winning books on Russian and Soviet sports history. His articles have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Journal of Sport History, Ski History Magazine, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and Finland's Sport History Yearbook, Suomen Urheiluhistoriallisen Seuran Vuosikirja.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Acronyms, Abbreviations, Definitions, Names

Introduction

 1. An Overview of Yakima County

 2. Kay Kershaw and “Homosexuality” in the Early 20th Century

 3. Kay Kershaw and Women’s Aeronautics

 4. The Great Depression and World War II

 5. The Double K Mountain Ranch

 6. Interlude: Shifting Perceptions During the Cold War

 7. Cougar Lakes Wilderness—The First Decade (1958–1968)

 8. Interlude: Isabelle Lynn and Justice Douglas Help Kay at Goose Prairie

 9. NEPA, RARE I and II, and Cougar Lakes Legislation (1969–1980)

10. How Cougar Lakes Became the William O. Douglas Wilderness

Epilogue

Appendix: The Literary Odyssey of Isabelle Lynn

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 39 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4766-9392-7 / 1476693927
ISBN-13 978-1-4766-9392-7 / 9781476693927
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