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The article presents a biography of Mabel Dodge Luhan, the most famous American salonniere of the modern era. Topics covered include her family and educational background, her work as a social reformer, promoting an American society of social, economic, and sexual equality and justice for men, women, minorities, and immigrants, and her initiatives in saving the art and culture of Indians in Taos, New Mexico.

A biography of food writer and homemaking expert Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert is presented. She was born in 1894 and was educated in Spain and at New Mexico Normal College. In addition to serving as a rural schoolteacher, she wrote cookbooks focused on Hispano foods and traditions. She was active in cultural preservation efforts and established several nutrition and home economics training centers in rural areas. She died in 1991.

A biography of American painter Henry Cady Wells is presented. He grew up in a wealthy family in Cambridge, Massachusetts and attended the Evans Ranch School in Arizona. He studied art in New Mexico under modernist painter Andrew Dasburg and immersed himself in nature while living near Santa Fe, New Mexico. His experience in the U.S. Army during World War II and his close proximity to the Los Alamos nuclear testing site influenced his paintings. He passed away in 1954.