Mailing May

by Michael O. Tunnell

Nowadays it's no big deal or a girl to travel seventy-five miles.  But when Charlotte May Pierstorff wanted to cross seventy-five miles of Idaho mountains to see her grandma in 1914, it was a very big deal indeed.  There was no highway except the railroad, and a train ticket would have cost her parents a full day's pay.Here is the true story of how May got to visit her grandma, thanks to her won spunk, her father's ingenuity, and the U.S. mail.  Softcover · 32 pgs. ·Ages 4-8.