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The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened The West (1989)

by Lesley Poling-Kenpes(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1557780641 (ISBN13: 9781557780645)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Paragon House Publishers

review 1: This was a good book, please do not let the fact that I didn't finish it stop you from reading it. Once it got into the personal stories of the Harvey Girls, the stories became similar and alike. Fred Harvey ran a chain of hotels and restaurants along the Santa Fe Railroad when the West was being settled. The women who worked at those restaurants were called Harvey Girls. The book gave a good history of the women who moved west to work at these places.
review 2: This portrait of the 100,000 Harvey Girls who moved to the Southwest and West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is a wonderful piece of research and an important historical document. However, the organization and editing of the book leaves something to be desired--Poling-Kempes improved her... more skills significantly (or she got a much better editor!) between this book and the fascinating "Ghost Ranch". less

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