Eight women, two Model Ts, and the American West / Joanne Wilke.
Material type: TextSeries: Women in the WestPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.Description: 169 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0803260199 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780803260191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Torgrim, Marie Hjelle -- Correspondence
- Wilke, Joanne -- Family
- Automobile travel -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century
- Ford Model T automobile
- Women adventurers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- Women -- Iowa -- Biography
- Young women -- Travel -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century
- Young women -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
- West (U.S.) -- History, Local
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 917.8 W681 | Available | 33111005407107 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
A beginning -- From Iowa -- We on the Pigmy Road -- Echoes or my ribs -- From the cliffs -- Mountain vistas -- Galloping bare-breasted -- A heap of living.