Description
Prospecta Press, Published 2023. Hardcover, 175 pp.; 23 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and a 1930 road map of the United States. Scarce Hardcover edition (privately published).
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Faint edge wear to covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear, with a pictorial front panel showing a black-and-white photograph of the family's 1930 Model A Ford parked at a national park. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. [From front jacket flap] When they first began working on this book, the authors thought they would simply write the story of Linda Killinger's grandparents who, with seven of their thirteen children, took a fifteen-month trip across the country visiting relatives and the national parks in their brand new 1930 Model A Ford. Very quickly, they realized this was not just a simple story: it became a window into how this pivotal moment in American history affected their grandparents' family and the generations that followed. Levi's Dream presents a living history of twentieth-century America. All proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to charity via The Kerry and Linda Killinger Foundation. Contents: 1930 Map of US Showing Trip Route; Introduction; Chapter One: 1929: Levi's Dream; Chapter Two: 1909-1920: The Golden Age of Agriculture and The Emerging Age of Auto and Air Transportation; Chapter Three: The 1920s on an Iowa Farm; Chapter Four: 1926: You're Ahead in a Ford All the Way, From the Model T to the Model A; Chapter Five: 1930: The Trip Begins: Crystal Lake to Cody, Wyoming; Chapter Six: 1930: Yellowstone National Park; Chapter Seven: 1930: On the Way to the West Coast; Chapter Eight: 1930-1931: Living the Life in Compton, California; Chapter Nine: 1931: Home to Iowa; Chapter Ten: The Tumultuous Thirties; Epilogue: The Winds of War; National Parks, National Forests, and Cities Visited on the Trip; Publications That Helped Us With Research; About the Authors; Acknowledgments.