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Eight women, two Model Ts, and the American West
- Title
- Eight women, two Model Ts, and the American West / Joanne Wilke.
- Author
- Wilke, Joanne.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007], ©2007.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- 169 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on an extended car-camping trip through six national parks, "without a man or a gun along." It was the era of the flapper, but this book tells the story of a group of farm girls who met while attending Iowa's Teacher's College and who shared a "yen to see some things." A blend of oral and written history, adventure, memoir, and just plain heartfelt living, Eight Women is a story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Weaving together a granddaughter's essays with family stories and anecdotes from the 1924 trip, the book portrays four generations of women extending from nineteenth-century Norway to present-day Iowaand sets them loose across the western United States where the perils and practicalities of automotive travel reaffirm family connections while also celebrating individual freedom."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Women in the West
- Uniform Title
- Women in the West.
- Subject
- Torgrim, Marie Hjelle > Correspondence
- Wilke, Joanne > Family
- Young women > History > West (U.S.) > 20th century
- Young women > West (U.S.) > Biography
- Women adventurers > West (U.S.) > Biography
- Women > Iowa > Biography
- Ford Model T automobile
- Automobile travel > West (U.S.) > History > 20th century
- West (U.S.) > Description and travel
- West (U.S.) > History, Local
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. A Beginning -- 2. From Iowa -- 3. We on the Pigmy Road -- 4. Echoes on My Ribs -- 5. From the Cliffs -- 6. Mountain Vistas -- 7. Galloping Bare-Breasted -- 8. A Heap of Living.
- ISBN
- 9780803260191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0803260199 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007001683
- 99820223324
- OCLC
- ocm80019859\
- 80019859
- SCSB-5401618
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries