The Harvey Girls by Lesley Poling-Kempes

The Harvey Girls by Lesley Poling-Kempes

The award-winning history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway -- and went on to shape the American Southwest

From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey Girls went west to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Santa Fe railway. At a time when there were no ladies west of Dodge City and no women west of Albuquerque, they came as waitresses, but many stayed and settled, founding the struggling cattle and mining towns that dotted the region. Interviews, historical research, and photographs help re-create the Harvey Girl experience. The accounts are personal, but laced with the history the women lived: the dust bowl, the depression, and anecdotes about some of the many famous people who ate at the restaurants--Teddy Roosevelt, Shirley Temple, Bob Hope, to name a few.

The Harvey Girls was awarded the winner of the 1991 New Mexico Press Women's ZIA award.

Lesley Poling-Kempes has been associated with the Ghost Ranch Conference Center since the mid 1970s. Her other books include The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West; and a novel, The Canyon of Remembering.

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ISBN 13	9781569249260
ISBN 10	1569249261
Title	The Harvey Girls
Author	Lesley Poling-Kempes
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Marlowe & Co
Year published	1994-07-04
Number of pages	320
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