{"product_id":"under-mountain-shadows-kay-kershaw-lesbian-eco-warrior-of-the-pacific-northwest-9781476693927","title":"Under Mountain Shadows: Kay Kershaw, Lesbian Eco-Warrior of the Pacific Northwest","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGriswold v. Connecticut\u003c\/i\u003e (1965), which provided the basis for major LGBTQ+ Supreme Court decisions in the twenty-first century as well as \u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e in 1973.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam D. Frank\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two international award-winning books on Russian and Soviet sports history. His articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe, The Journal of Sport History, Ski History Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePacific Northwest Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and Finland's Sport History Yearbook, \u003ci\u003eSuomen Urheiluhistoriallisen Seuran Vuosikirja\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725164843282,"sku":"9781476693927","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7da8058f-870d-4e03-b379-2dd04acb9bf8.jpg?v=1734819375","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/under-mountain-shadows-kay-kershaw-lesbian-eco-warrior-of-the-pacific-northwest-9781476693927","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}