Quote:
"Seizing the challenge of competition, speed, dynamism, and aggression, Shipman constructs a narrative [in Trail of the Arrow] that emphasizes female friendship, equality between men and women, and a geographical, political, and personal freedom for women. She is not fleeing from patriarchy, but accepting its challenge and defeating it. Equally at home on the streets of Los Angeles or the roadless tracts of the wilderness, she embodies and embraces technological and spiritual modernity and declares it a new world for women."
-- Kay Armatage

Source:
Armatage, Kay. The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. (p. 126)