{"title":"Joanne Wilke","description":"Joanne Wilke's work has appeared in the Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West and Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West anthologies. She has also written pieces for the Montana Quarterly, the Pacific Review, and the Christian Science Monitor.","products":[{"product_id":"eight-women-two-model-ts-and-the-american-west-paperback","title":"Eight Women, Two Model Ts, and the American West - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67928315723999,"sku":"9780803260191","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/iFT-AJXp9U9780803260191.webp?v=1791265958"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/joanne-wilke.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}