Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon hardcover first edition of this history, winner of the Southwest Books of the Year "Top Choice" Award. "For more than a century, Ghost Ranch has attracted people of enormous energy and creativity to the high desert of northern New Mexico. Occupying 22,000 acres of the Piedra Lumbre basin, this was the love of artist Georgia OKeeffes life, and her depictions of the landscape catapulted Ghost Ranch to international recognition. [This] traces its transformation from el Rancho de los Brujos, a hideout for legendary outlaws, to a renowned cultural mecca. First a dude ranch, Ghost Ranch became a magical sanctuary where the veil between heaven and earth seemed almost transparent. Focusing on those who visited from the 1920s and 30s until the 1990s, Poling-Kempes tells how OKeeffe and others - from Boston Brahmin Carol Bishop Stanley to paleontologist Edwin H. Colbert, Los Alamos physicists to movie stars - created a unique community that evolved into the institution that is Ghost Ranch today." Illustrated with many photographs, notes, index. xvii, 291 pp. ISBN: 0-816523460.