On May 4, 11:32=EF=BF=BDam, "Michael S. Schiffer"
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> Bill Patterson <WHPatter...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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: =EF=BF=BDI'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.
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> I haven't read this, but could it be _Trailer Tribe_ by Florence
> Musgrave (1955)? =EF=BF=BDSome 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. =EF=BF=BDI was fascinated by the description of the way the
Amish=
> lived. =EF=BF=BDI don't think they traveled to all the States but
primaril=
y
> stayed in the mid-West and Northeast. I think the family consisted
> of a father, mother, sister and brother."
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> (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). =EF=BF=BDYou also might
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t
> to try some date-restricted keyword searches at worldcat.org. =EF=BF=BD
> (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.) =EF=BF=BD
>
> Mike
Thanks, Mike -- that's very helpful. It gives me a place to start. I
had thought the book was published somewhat earlier than I must have
read it, which would have been between 1958 and 1960, but I'll take up
your suggestions. Again, thanks.
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