Bill Patterson <WHPatterson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Can someone of the RPOE advise me about something off-topic for
> this newsgroup but of related interest: Who I should ask (having
> no access to a library of any kind) to start research on a
> question of interest: I'm trying to find the title and author
> of a book I read sometime in the 1950's, possibly written in the
> late 1940's (definitely after WWII) about a father who buys a
> house trailer and takes his family touring around the U.S. to
> see the sights and learn the history and extent of the U.S. as
> it was then.
I haven't read this, but could it be _Trailer Tribe_ by Florence
Musgrave (1955)? Some searching gets a description that seems to
match yours: "It was a story about a family that took a trip
through the United States in a trailer (I think). The one part of
the book that I remember best was when they visited the Amish
country. I was fascinated by the description of the way the Amish
lived. I don't think they traveled to all the States but primarily
stayed in the mid-West and Northeast. I think the family consisted
of a father, mother, sister and brother."
(A Google Books search doesn't turn up the book itself, but there
are some short reviews that give additional detail: the trip
started in Ohio and included DC and NYC.)
If that's not it, if it's a children's or YA book,
rec.arts.books.childrens has a good reputation for identifying
books (or did as of a few years back, anyway). You also might want
to try some date-restricted keyword searches at worldcat.org.
(Worldcat indexes the holdings of several thousand libraries-- if
the book exists and is held somewhere, there's a good chance that
there's a record of it there.)
Mike
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