Kristie Miller

2004 University of Arizona Press. Ist edition. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

An Enterprising Woman

She was equally at home on the western range and in New York salons. An energetic entrepreneur who managed a ranch, an airline, and a resort. A politician who was a key player during the New Deal. In so many ways, Isabella Greenway blazed a trail for the remarkable women in Arizona politics today, from Sandra Day O'Connor to Janet Napolitano. Now Kristie Miller offers an intimate view of this extraordinary life. In her early youth, Isabella Selmem lived in North Dakota, where her parents became close friends of fellow rancher Theodore Roosevelt. In her teens, she moved to New York City, where she was a debutante and later a bridesmaid in the wedding of Elanor and Franklin Roosevelt. She married Robert Ferguson, one of TR's Rough Riders, whose tuberculosis sent them to the dry air of New Mexico. After his death, she married Arizona copper miner John Greenway, her late husband's fellow Rough Rider. In Tucson, the energetic Isabella made her name in the community by founding the Arizona Inn, but her activities were not confined to her new home. Eleanor Roosevelt recruited Isabella to work for the Democratic Party, and in 1932 the New York Times called her the most-talked-of woman at the National Democratic Convention. Isabella Greenway was elected to Congress the following year and again drew national media attention when she challenged FDR for not being sufficiently progressive. Miller's meticulous biography captures a life of adventure and romance, from Edith Wharton's New York to ventures into ranching, the airline industry, furniture manufacture, and hotel management. She shows the action of national politics played out behind the scenes. Isabella's life-long friendship with EleanorRoosevelt, and the drama of a loyal wife caring for a dying husband despite having fallen in love with a younger man. The book also reveals Greenway's considerable influence on the development of Arizona in the early decades of statehood. Although Isabella Greenway died in 1953, her Arizona Inn is still a premier resort hotel--a tribute to her enterprise--celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2005. This book, too, celebrates one woman's boundless energy, vision, indomitable spirit, and love of life.

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