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Making a mark
The Harvey Girls were forever memorialize into American history when in 1946 MGM released the Hollywood movie " The Harvey Girls " staring Judy Garland . The picture was based on the 1942 book with the same championship written by Samuel Hopkins Adams . Through the thaumaturgy of the big covert many Americans become to see for themselves the story of these brave vernal cleaning lady who courageously get to the American West for a well pay job and a chance for adventure and independency . They were as much a group of brave American pioneers as any westbound traveling miner , trapper , railroad man or Fannie Merritt Farmer . And , in a time when there were " no noblewoman west of Dodge City and no women west of Albuquerque , the Harvey Girls bring civilisation to a vast region of America and became the founding mothers of the new American West .
