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    612-822-4611

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Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West

Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West

Wilke, Joanne

Paperback

Series: Women in the West

Biographies GeneralWestWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0803260199
ISBN13: 9780803260191
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Dec 1 2007
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
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 Iowa--and sets them loose across the western United States where the perils and practicalities of automotive travel reaffirm family connections while also celebrating individual freedom.

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