Appetite for America
How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
New York : Bantam Books, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xix, 518 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Traces the story of the nineteenth-century entrepreneur who established a national chain of restaurants, hotels, and bookstores patronizing railroad passengers, in an account that reveals his role in shaping culture and labor.
Subjects:
Harvey, Fred.
Fred Harvey (Firm)
Cooking, American.
Restaurateurs -- United States -- Biography.
Harvey, Fred.
Fred Harvey (Firm)
Cooking, American.
Restaurateurs -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780553804379
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Harvey, Fred | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.