A great winter read for women who love memoirs and road trips is Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West, where writer Joanne Wilke pieces together the journey her
grandmother, great-aunt, and six of their female friends made in a
couple of Model Ts. In 1924, the women headed out from Iowa on a
sightseeing tour that took them to the Garden of the Gods in Colorado,
the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Mount Rainier, the Pacific Ocean, and
Yellowstone, to name just a few of the tourist attractions of the
American West that the women reached during the nine-week trip.
About the book:
In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two
Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand
unpaved miles on an extended car-camping trip through six national
parks, “without a man or a gun along.” It was the era of the flapper,
but this book tells the story of a group of farm girls who met while
attending Iowa’s Teacher’s College and who shared a “yen to see some
things.”
Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West
By Joanne Wilke
Bison Books
184 pages, $18.95
Jody DeVere
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