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My Tour of the Golden West: Letters home from a 1911 trip to Idaho, Colorado, Oregon, California, Arizona and New Mexico. This edition Includes color

My Tour of the Golden West: Letters home from a 1911 trip to Idaho, Colorado, Oregon, California, Arizona and New Mexico. This edition Includes color

Roberts, Lloyd
Johnson, Effie May

Paperback

Gifts & Stationery General

ISBN13: 9798873075621
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 27 2023
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1910/1911 Effie May Johnson, aged 29, toured the Golden West. Her letters home were published in the Parkersburg (West Virginia) Sentinel, and are reproduced here. She reports her experiences in wonderful and unexpected detail, for example, when riding a train through the desert, she describes the sand blowing in through the open carriage windows. She gives us a female perspective on travelling alone in 1911.

She spent her whole life on the family farm in Boaz (West Virginia), and her knowledge of agriculture shines through in her letters. She asks in-depth questions about farm economics and tells day-to-day details of 1910 farm life in the West.

She visits Stanford University, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, still recovering from the Fire and writes about a lecture by Stanford University president Dr. David Starr Jordan.

This special color edition includes contemporaneous color vintage postcard views of some of the locations she visited.

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