The brewers' big horses
By: Mildred Walker ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by David Budbill.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: German Americans -- Fiction; Women brewers -- Fiction; Breweries -- Fiction; Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction
Description: Little Sara Bolster loved the great shining horses that drew the Henkel brewery wagon through the streets of Detroit in the 1880s. Those horses came to signify her fate, for she married the Henkel son and later, as a widow, took over the business. Sara's struggle against the intolerance and hypocrisy of family and friends who disapproved of a woman running a brewery and opening a beer garden makes her a standout among the characters of Mildred Walker.

The Brewers' Big Horses recreates the manners and traditions of Germans in America as Prohibition gets up steam.
Notes: "Reprinted from the original 1940 edition by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York."