Starting in Kansas; Fred Harvey�s iconic Harvey House was the first to set the standard for fine dining and hospitality across the rugged Southwest. In 1876; the first of Harvey�s depot restaurants opened in Topeka; followed just a few years later by the first combination hotel and restaurant in Florence. Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls introduced good food and manners to the land of Bat Masterson; Wyatt Earp and raucous cattle drives. In her third book on the Harvey House legacy; author Rosa Walston Latimer goes back to where it all began in this history of hospitality from the Sunflower State.
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Review
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Very informative in an area I had not explored beforeBy Larry E. HancockWell written; great color plates in the section on painting; led me to some novels I had not encountered before. For me; insightful in an area I had not previously explored. Not very keen about the section on opera; which covered little other than Wagner; and then the emphasis is on Wagners writing rather than his compositions. Left me wondering if 19th-century opera had much to do with classical antiquity. But still; I found the book more than worth while.
