Mailing May: A Picture Book About a Spunky Girl Sent by U.S. Mail Across Idaho Mountains in 1914 for Kids (Ages 4-8) cover
Mailing May: A Picture Book About a Spunky Girl Sent by U.S. Mail Across Idaho Mountains in 1914 for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by Michael O. Tunnell
ISBN: 0064437248
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owlstuffing · 2025-06-27 · Original thread
Reminds me of a book, Mailing May[1], I read to my daughter and now my granddaughter. A true story of a family on a budget who sent their daughter to see grandma as mail cargo on a train. Cute story.

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AnimalMuppet · 2015-11-11 · Original thread
"Mailing May" (http://www.amazon.com/Mailing-May-Michael-O-Tunnell/dp/00644...) is a good (fictionalized) account of the story in the third paragraph, that of May Pierstorff. (By the way, the town was Grangeville, ID, not Graneville.)