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THE HARVEY GIRLS Women Who Opened the West by Lesley Poling-Kempes Interviews, historical research, and photos recreate the Harvey Girl experience of women who came to the west to work as waitresses at the Fred Harvey restaurants along the Santa Fe railway , from the 1880s to the 1950s. Many stayed to help settle and develop the American West. "The accounts are personal but laced with the history the women lived: the dust bowl, the Depression, and anecdotes about some of the many fa....]]> http://sosonlinebookstore.mybisi.com/product/39120/product_180642.html $10.00
The Yukon by Richard Mathews - Rivers of America Series "The Yukon's lure has been recorded and enhanced in in beautiful prose buttressed with admirable research. Appropriately, one of the best in the Rivers of America Series, it is an invaluable addition to the growing body of Alaskana and Americana." Contents includes the history of the Yukon River, the surrounding area, and the people, both Native Eskimos and Indians and the Russians; the rich fur trade; the Klondike and the Gold Ru....]]> http://sosonlinebookstore.mybisi.com/product/39120/product_175783.html $5.00
MY REMEMBERS A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression by Eddie "Sarge" Stimpson, Jr. "In 1929, near Plano, Texas, Eddie Stimpson, Jr., weighing 15 1/2 pounds, was born to a 19-year-old father and a 15-year-old mother. The boy, his two sisters, and mother all 'grew up together,' with the father sharecropping along the old Preston Road, the route used by many freedmen trying to escape Texas after the Civil War. His childhood was void of luxuries, but full of country pleas....]]> http://sosonlinebookstore.mybisi.com/product/39120/product_169003.html $4.00
MIRACLE IN THE HILLS by Mary T. Martin Sloop, M.D. with Legette Blythe The lively personal story of a woman doctor's 40-year crusade in the mountains of North Carolina. "Dr. Sloop and her husband began their lifelong dedication to the mountain people when they rode horseback into the remote hill region in 1909. The conditions they encountered were shockingly primitive. The people had neither doctors or schools. Electricity and running water were unheard of. The main industry was moonsh....]]> http://sosonlinebookstore.mybisi.com/product/39120/product_140644.html $5.00
BLOW FOR BATTEN'S CROSSING A Backwoods Odyssey by Hazel B. Girard, Marvin Girard Memoirs of growing up in Glennie, Michigan - more specifically, Batten's Crossing - on the Batten farm carved out of the virgin wilderness by the author's lumberjack father. "Few kids today ever have the pleasure of living on a farm where the main artery of a railroad runs between the house and the barn. The A.S. & N.W. (Au Sable and North Western Railroad) did just that. The little narrow-gauge t....]]> http://sosonlinebookstore.mybisi.com/product/39120/product_140387.html $5.00
MORMON COUNTRY by Wallace Stegner "Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their 'lovely Deseret,' a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Illinois and Missouri, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land they settled, the Mormons' habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed to th....]]> http://sosonlinebookstore.mybisi.com/product/39120/product_140375.html $5.00
A WAY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, The Natchez Trace & the Civilization of the Southern Frontier  by William C. Davis A Way Through the Wilderness is a fascinating history of the original southern frontier, the area that today includes primarily Mississippi and Alabama. Davis describes the movement of pioneers and settlers south from Nashville in the years following the American Revolution. The most traveled route through the wilderness - a route that was fraught with hardship and dan....]]>