Across America and Back: Retracing My Great-Grandparents' Remarkable Journey

by Mary Ann Hooper

After unearthing her great-grandparents' diaries, Mary Ann Hooper set out on a journey to retrace their 1871 trip across the United States on the newly-opened Transcontinental Railroad--via Chicago, just destroyed by the Great Fire, then across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to the Golden City of San Francisco. Filled with rich details of time, place, and culture, Mary Ann's thoughtful and compelling narrative is both a re-creation of a family...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943859663
• ISBN13: 9781943859665
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"