The Harvey girls
Subtitle: women who opened the West
By: Lesley Poling-Kempes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Paragon House
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Fred Harvey (Firm) -- History; Waitresses -- Southwest, New -- History; Women -- Southwest, New -- History; Tourism -- Southwest, New -- History; Southwest, New -- History -- 1848-; Southwest, New -- Social conditions
Description: The story of the pioneering women who worked as waitresses at Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway from the 1880s through the 1950s. At the time when there were "no ladies west of Albuquerque," these young women, between the ages of eighteen and thirty, left comfortable homes in the Est to work in what was then the Wild West. They came as waitresses, but when their contracts were up many stayed and settled, building new lives in the struggling cattle and mining communities. They, along with other Harvey employees or railroadmen, became the founding mothers and fathers of the West -- Book jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [223]-224.
Ill. on lining papers.