Colleen Skidmore is a photography historian and Professor at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on women’s photographic practices and archives of women in photography in North America from 1860 to 1920. She is the editor of This Wild Spirit: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada (UAP).

• AcknowledgementsAuthor’s Note on Names1 She Who Colored SlidesExploring, Challenging, and ComprehendingWomenWildernessPhotographyRethinking Mary Schäffer Studies2 Philadelphia, Paris, and the Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1889–1903Photography in PhiladelphiaPhotography Aesthetics and the Photographic Society of PhiladelphiaExhibition of American Women PhotographersBotanyBeauty, Realism, and Mountain Landscapes3 The Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1904–19061903: Wealth and Widowhood1904: Meeting Molly AdamsCivilization and Wilderness1906: Imagination, Literary Licence, and Five Women on the TrailOld Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies4 Maligne Lake, 1907–1911Seeking Chaba ImneFinding Chaba ImneThe Beaver FamilyPhotographing the Beaver FamilySketching Chaba ImneSurveying Maligne LakeMistaken Identity5 Japan, 1908–1909, and Banff, 1909–1939Interest in Things Japanese, October 1908–January 1909Photographing in Ainu and Atayal VillagesWriting the Rockies, 1909–1939EpilogueAppendix 1: Mary T.S. Schäffer and FamiliesAppendix 2: Mary W. (Molly) Adams and FamilyNotesBibliographyIllustrations and PermissionsIndex

"In her new book, Skidmore portrays Schäffer in a nuanced way by discussing the scientific and artistic communities she came from, as well as the lives of the people she travelled with. She also dissolves some of the more persistent stereotypes people use to describe Schäffer.... Readers of Skidmore's new book will better understand why Schäffer's work has moved people for so long."