Across America and back : retracing my great grandparents' remarkable journey /

Using the common thread of the voyage across the country, Mary Ann weaves together the two stories, Charles and Fannie Crosby's leisurely Victorian tourist trip described in both their diaries, and her own trip, laced with her reflections on her birth country and her own life story. Both journe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hooper, Mary Ann, 1944- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Rice, Charles, > 1838- > Travel > United States. Rice, Fannie, > 1844- > Travel > United States. Hooper, Mary Ann, > 1944- > Travel > United States. United States > Description and travel. West (U.S.) > Description and travel. Railroad travel > United States. Railroad travel > West (U.S.) United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918. Brattleboro (Vt.) > Biography.

Table of Contents:

To Chicago
destroyed by the Great Fire
To Omaha
gateway to the West
Across the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains
Wyoming
cowboy and Indian country
Salt Lake City and the Mormons
Across the desert to San Francisco
Arrival in San Francisco
Excursion to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles
Back in San Francisco for the Chinese New Year
Return Home via gold mines and Yosemite Valley.