Bill Patterson <WHPatterson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 4, 11:32�am, "Michael S. Schiffer"
> <mschi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Bill Patterson <WHPatter...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> innews:e799751b-f4b1-47a1-b64
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>> com:
>> > 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:
>...
>> 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 wan
> t
>> 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.) �
> 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.
You're welcome. Good luck!
Mike
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