{"product_id":"eight-women-two-model-ts-and-the-american-west-9780803260191","title":"Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West","description":"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.\" A blend of oral and written history, adventure, memoir, and just plain heartfelt living, \u003ci\u003eEight Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Weaving together a granddaughter's essays with family stories and anecdotes from the 1924 trip, the book portrays four generations of women extending from nineteenth-century Norway to present-day Iowa--and sets them loose across the western United States where the perils and practicalities of automotive travel reaffirm family connections while also celebrating individual freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoanne Wilke's work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eCrazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLeaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West\u003c\/i\u003e anthologies. She has also written pieces for the\u003ci\u003e Montana Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003ePacific Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328429822226,"sku":"9780803260191","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe10122a-3edf-4167-b6eb-815016914865.jpg?v=1727739563","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eight-women-two-model-ts-and-the-american-west-9780803260191","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}