Non-Fiction Books:

Under Mountain Shadows

Sorry, this product is not currently available to order

Here are some other products you might consider...

Under Mountain Shadows

Kay Kershaw, Lesbian Eco-Warrior of the Pacific Northwest
Click to share your rating 0 ratings (0.0/5.0 average) Thanks for your vote!

Format:

Paperback / softback
Unavailable
Sorry, this product is not currently available to order

Description

This book examines Kay Kershaw's tremendous influence on conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest and on LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. Except for a short stint during WWII, Kay Kershaw spent nearly her entire life in Washington State's Yakima County. As a young woman, Kay pursued lesbian relationships as she gained local renown in sport and aviation; after the war, she established a world-famous dude ranch at Goose Prairie with her first partner, Pat Kane. This proved a fraught undertaking in a region closely associated with the John Birch Society. Operating the ranch under the guise of two "spinsters," Kershaw and her later life-partner Isabelle Lynn guarded their privacy closely, but local encroachment by the US 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 and, perhaps, affected his perception of the law and his precedent-setting judicial opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). Douglas's right to privacy argument in Griswold provided the basis for major LGBTQ+ Supreme Court decisions in the twenty-first century as well as Roe v. Wade in 1973.

Author Biography:

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.
Release date NZ
March 31st, 2024
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
30 photos
Pages
277
ISBN-13
9781476693927
Product ID
38251672

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Help & options

Filed under...