The extravagant New York socialite Mabel Dodge gathered with the likes of Gertrude Stein, John Reed and D.H. Lawrence before she moved to Taos in 1917 to reunite with her husband, the artist Maurice Stearn. First published in 1937, this story reveals the spiritual awakening she experienced through Taos, the Pueblo Indians and Indian Tony Luhan, whom she later married.  (USW127, $21.95)

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