70 Miles from a Lemon

Yates, Haydie

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947

Beschreibung

70 MILES FROM A LEMON, Haydie Yates, illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, probable first edition, 1947. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block is in near fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. Pages are age-toned. No bookplate or signature of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The beige cloth boards are in very good condition (very slight bumping of corners and spine). The dust jacket is in poor condition (chipping and tears along edges and folds, pieces of tape inside). 8 ¼ x 5 3/4, 235 pages, 13 ounces XX [From the dust jacket] The Yates were coming back after a footloose summer in Europe, Ted to real estate and Haydie to her desk at The New Yorker. Came the dawn and the cold gray stalagmites of lower New York. To hell with all this said the Yates in unison, and set off that night in a flivver for Wyoming. They set themselves down in the heart of Crow Indian Reservation in the Big Horn Mountains. There was no house, so they built a log cabin themselves, beating the first big blizzard by inches. No cows and no meadows, so they began buying and plowing. No neighbors, no calendar or radio, so they had to guess when it was Christmas. And all this 70 miles from a lemon! Mrs. Yates's narrative is a Swiss Family Robinson tale of the elemental quest for shelter and subsistence. It is the heart-warming story of two people who changed harness and gave up established security in favor of the untried and unknown. XX Haydie Yates, born Emma Hayden Eames in Hartford, Connecticut, grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and Hagerstown, Maryland. Her father, Hayden Eames, was an Annapolis graduate, later turned industrial engineer, and her sister, Clare, an actress well remembered for her Mary Stuart and other striking roles. Her distinguished aunt, now living in New York City, is Emma Eames, dramatic soprano of America's Golden Age of Opera. Her husband, Frederick L. Yates, gave up Yale to serve in World War I, with the rank of captain. Haydie's first ambition was to be a bareback rider in a circus, and it is doubtless this suppressed desire that has taken her in and out of Wyoming and Montana ever since 1917. She first fell in love with the West when she went as a dude to the famous Valley Ranch outside Cody. Back East, she became a reporter on The New Yorker soon after its founding, but the lure was too great, and she and her husband returned to Wyoming in 1927 for seven years of rugged pioneering. Up to their necks in the cattle business and awash in pets, they also found time for three years to get out an influential newspaper, the Sheridan Press. Mrs. Yates did everything from building a log cabin to having babies, from cutting timber to riding in rodeos. Now living in Florida, she maintains her membership in the Wyoming Hereford Association. It is her only club. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002699

Bibliografische Details

Titel: 70 Miles from a Lemon

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Company

Erscheinungsdatum: 1947

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Cosgrave II, John O?Hara

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor