All Intensive Purposes

In Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner drew on experiences of Mary Hallock Foote to tell the story of Susan Burling Ward, a New Yorker and an artist who marries an engineer and his life in the West. At one point Susan and Oliver Ward at one point travel to Mexico so that he can inspect a silver mine, a trip that Susan recalls for the rest of her life as a cosmopolitan interval between stints in different mining towns. Mary Duenwald followed the trail of Foote and Ward to Morelia, the capital of Michoacán.