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The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations—from the 1880s all the way through World War II—and still influence our lives today in surprising and fascinating ways. Now award-winning journalist Stephen Fried re-creates the life of this unlikely American hero, the founding father of the nation's service industry, whose remarkable family business civilized the West and introduced America to Americans.
Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey—told in depth for the first time ever—as well as the story of this country's expansion into the Wild West of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, of the great days of the railroad, of a time when a deal could still be made with a handshake and the United States was still uniting. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald's, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harvey's staff of carefully screened single young women—the celebrated Harvey Girls—were the country's first female workforce and became genuine Americana, even inspiring an MGM musical starring Judy Garland.
With the verve and passion of Fred Harvey himself, Stephen Fried tells the story of how this visionary built his business from a single lunch counter into a family empire whose marketing and innovations we still encounter in myriad ways. Inspiring, instructive, and hugely entertaining, Appetite for America is historical biography that is as richly rewarding as a slice of fresh apple pie—and every bit as satisfying.
*With two photo inserts featuring over 75 images, and an appendix with over fifty Fred Harvey recipes, most of them never-before-published.
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reviewed Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West on April 27, 2010 Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
This is a great story, well worth the read, and for me, postive re-enforcement of my family's place in the history of the WEst. My dad worked for Santa Fe for 48 years. My mother's brother ended his worklife working for the Santa Fe. My cousins' uncle ran a Santa Fe section gang out of a converted Pullman off a sidetrack in Bernallio, New Mexico. My birthplace and hometown, both of my sisters birthplaces, my hometown, my father and my mother's birthplace and home town are in this book. My grandmother was a Harvey Girl so many of the more well-known people and places in this book were dinner table conversation at her house. There is southwest U.S. history galore here. There is history of the Grand Canyon and the sumptuous hotel there, El Tovar. Chateau's Island an obscure water-logged spit, in the Arkansas River where a standoff took place between French explorers and Native Indians near Lakin, Kansas, is mentioned. Cooldige,Kansas which was featured in a Chevy Chase "vacation" film and where my grandfather always claimed a law was passed that women could not ride "naked, on horseback" takes a place. Las Animas, Colorado; Las Vegas, New Mexico; Lamy, New Mexico; Santa Fe's LA FONDA HOTEL; the list of places you have either been to or heard of goes on and on. Fred Harvey had a fine home in Kansas City and he and his family were active in civic and social events there. So, from Kansas City, west to California, through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, into Oklahoma and then onto California, Fried has traced the history of the Harvey House eateries and hostelries. Fried and his wife also made their own trip and stayed at La Posada in Winslow, AZ.(this story in in the the Appendices.)APPETITE FOR AMERICA is easy to read and quite compelling. Anyone who is interested in railway history or Western Expansion will eat this up. Appendices,a list of resources, Harvey House recipies and a complete index follow the text.
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