 She was working as an assistant in a placement bureau for women journalists, then as the director for the Women's National Journalistic Register.In 1933, wanting to live someplace that had beautiful scenery, a good library and an "invigorating climate", she moved with attorney and fellow writer Olive Rabe to Boulder, Colorado.Five years later they bought a 200-acre ranch in Sunshine Canyon, at the foot of Flagstaff Mountain.