--- product_id: 12678090 title: "The Year We Were Famous Hardcover – International Edition, April 4, 2011" brand: "dagg" price: "28780CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/12678090-the-year-we-were-famous-hardcover-international-edition-april-4 store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # The Year We Were Famous Hardcover – International Edition, April 4, 2011 **Brand:** dagg **Price:** 28780CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Year We Were Famous Hardcover – International Edition, April 4, 2011 by dagg - **How much does it cost?** 28780CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/12678090-the-year-we-were-famous-hardcover-international-edition-april-4) ## Best For - dagg enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted dagg brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![The Year We Were Famous Hardcover – International Edition, April 4, 2011 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61oqum0J1PL.jpg) ![The Year We Were Famous Hardcover – International Edition, April 4, 2011 - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61K3A1Z8U9L.jpg) ![The Year We Were Famous Hardcover – International Edition, April 4, 2011 - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31vCzKv28gL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Read on Every Level! *by W***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2011* The Year We Were Famous (by Carole Estby Dagg) is an amazing and heartfelt novel about a teenage girl's walk across the United States with her mother in the 1890s--all for the sake of a bet to win the $10,000 prize that can save their farm in eastern Washington state. The story is engaging on at least three levels. First (perhaps foremost), it is a story of adventure: the fears, hardships, and deprivations along the 6-month trek from Mica Creek, WA to New York City as told from the point of view of Clara Estby, the 17-year girl. Second, it is a story of relationships: the tensions teenage girls feel with their mothers, the secrets that are revealed along the way, the beginnings of a new love, and the ties to Clara's family and the man who has already asked for her hand in marriage back home. Last, this book is history, based on the real walk by the real Clara and Helga Estby more than one hundred years ago, who happen to be the Great Aunt and Great Grandmother of the author.Some readers may be familiar with the historical account of this trek (Bold Spirit, written by Linda Hunt), which is used in some college courses in Women's Studies departments across the US, but Dagg's novel engages the heart as a straight history cannot. Moreover, it speaks to young people of courage and hope, which is sorely needed today. My local librarian in Washington recommended it in a display of `Washington Heroes in History,' and I have since shared it with neighbors and friends, all who have thanked me (the teenage girls AND their parents--its audience is ageless). I hope very much there will be a next installment, or at least a new novel by this winner of the Sue Alexander Award for Most Promising Manuscript. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging Historical Novel *by H***E on Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2011* The Year We Were Famous was a joy to read. This is a wonderful adventure story of a real mother-daughter team, Helga and Clara, taking proactive action to save the family farm in the late 1800s. Carole Estby Dagg's telling of this true story is through the eyes of the teenage daughter Clara and uses well researched intelligent prose to fill unknown details. In a series of heartfelt, frightening and sometimes dangerous or frustrating adventures, the two women share an awesome 4000 mile walk across the USA with almost no resources in the quest to win a cash prize needed to save the farm but also to strengthen the suffragist movement. They experience the best in people and the worst. En route, Clara develops her innate strengths and problem solving skills, develops a better understanding of her mother, and learns that some boundaries can be moved.In my retirement years, I find myself enjoying books directed toward younger people. The Year We Were Famous is intelligent and not juvenile in content, but seems very appropriate for the 12 years and older that it is advertised for. I highly recommend this historical novel and am looking forward to the two "messy draft stage" books mentioned on the author's web page; maybe one is a sequel about the heroine Clara?! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars An Inspiring Account *by J***O on Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2016* What Helga and Clara did was an absolutely astonishing feat, perhaps especially for the time period in which they did it. It was probably fool-hardy to have made that walk as little prepared as they were, and with no positive proof of recompense at the conclusion. Nevertheless, they DID it--walked across the country, mile by mile, in spite of myriad obstacles, in an all-out effort to save their farm. 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