But some historians estimate that out of the over 100,000 girls who worked in the Harvey House restaurants and hotels along the rail line, some 20,000 became the wives of their regular town customers.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo- The year is 1876 a young man by the name of Fred Harvey has struck a deal with the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad to open a restaurant at one of the railroad’s depots.

This article by columnist Nancy Johnson first appeared in the Deming Headlight in March 2005. "Harvey House brought air of elegance to the Wild West. The first immigrants to this area were Navajo ...

The Harvey House restaurant chain was started by Leavenworth, Kansas entrepreneur Fred Harvey. Harvey left his native England at the age of 15 and found work in New York’s growing restaurant ...

So ingrained in the culture was Harvey that a 1946 movie was made starring Judy Garland called The Harvey Girls. If you rode the rails back in the day, you knew all about Harvey. If not, keep reading.

ST. LOUIS, Mo- You may have seen last month’s coverage of the Harvey Girls, a group of women hired to work at train stations across the West, we followed up with them Friday afternoon in St. L… ...

Harvey Girls were paid $17.50 a month, held to a strict code of conduct and housed in dormitories under the watchful eyes of house mothers. About your question: ...

Harvey Girls were typically 18 to 30 years old, always unmarried and often from the Midwest or East Coast. They were the waitresses at the Harvey House who had abandoned duller lives back home for ...

New Mexico recognized the legacy of the Harvey Girls, the thousands of women credited with helping transform the West by taking waitressing jobs along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line… ...

They're considered the first women to enter the American workforce. The Harvey girls flocked to the West in the 1900s to work at stops along the Santa Fe Railway.

In the late 1800s it wasn't just young men who heeded the call to go West - so did thousands of young women, recruited as waitresses for the eating establishments ...

New Mexico recognized the legacy of the Harvey Girls on Saturday, the thousands of women credited with helping transform the West by taking waitressing jobs along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ...