Overview
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.
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Author: William D. Frank
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9781476693927
ISBN 10: 1476693927
Pages: 241
Publication Date: 13 March 2024
Recommended Age: From 18 years
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""Quite an engaging work. ...a most fascinating deeply engaging exploration of homosexuality/lesbianism--not to mention far deeper understandings and tales about Yakima/East-side sociology/politics than I've ever seen before--which cause it, the whole book in my opinion--to be one of the most absorbing pieces of writing on the subject(s) I've ever seen. ...a wonderfully detailed mental journey into not only some pretty remarkable ecowarriors' hearts and souls, but also--just as impressive--one of the best, in-depth and so thoroughly researched, sociodemographic explorations into the political dimensions of being a conservationist in one of the most conservative parts of the whole Northwest.""--Brock Evans, director of the Sierra Club Washington, DC office, 1973-1981"
“Quite an engaging work. ...a most fascinating deeply engaging exploration of homosexuality/lesbianism--not to mention far deeper understandings and tales about Yakima/East-side sociology/politics than I've ever seen before--which cause it, the whole book in my opinion--to be one of the most absorbing pieces of writing on the subject(s) I've ever seen. ...a wonderfully detailed mental journey into not only some pretty remarkable ecowarriors' hearts and souls, but also--just as impressive--one of the best, in-depth and so thoroughly researched, sociodemographic explorations into the political dimensions of being a conservationist in one of the most conservative parts of the whole Northwest.” - Brock Evans, director of the Sierra Club Washington, DC office, 1973-1981
Author Information
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.
