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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 turbul

Under Mountain Shadows

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      Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
      Published 1/13/2024
      ISBN-13 9781476693927
      978-1476693927
      ISBN-10 1476693927

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 turbul

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