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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 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.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Acronyms, Abbreviations, Definitions, Names
Introduction
1. An Overview of Yakima County
2. Kay Kershaw and "Homosexuality" in the Early 20th Century
3. Kay Kershaw and Women's Aeronautics
4. The Great Depression and World War II
5. The Double K Mountain Ranch
6. Interlude: Shifting Perceptions During the Cold War
7. Cougar Lakes Wilderness—The First Decade (1958-1968)
8. Interlude: Isabelle Lynn and Justice Douglas Help Kay at Goose Prairie
9. NEPA, RARE I and II, and Cougar Lakes Legislation (1969-1980)
10. How Cougar Lakes Became the William O. Douglas Wilderness
Epilogue
Appendix: The Literary Odyssey of Isabelle Lynn
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
