Far from Home: West by Rail With the Harvey Girls Paper Dolls Golf Biographies (Books) including the Ball Player's Chronicle

including the Ball Player's Chronicle

including the Top Ten "Affair of the Heart

ISBN13: 9780760366813 ISBN10: 0760366810 Material Type: hardcover

A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station

making this truly a gift to savor

Far from Home: West by Rail With the Harvey Girls Paper Dolls Golf Biographies (Books) including the Ball Player's ChronicleIn the early 1880s when conventional wisdom decreed that working women were socially inferior and morally suspect, an English gentleman brought the first of thousands of young women to the American West to work in restaurants along the Santa Fe Railroad line. Preferring the term Harvey Girl to waitress, Fred Harvey recruited single women between the ages of eighteen and thirty to work ten hour days serving four course meals in under thirty minutes at