Fred Harvey and the Fred Harvey Company have been the subject of extensive scholarship. Stephen Fried's Appetite for America is widely regarded as the definitive history of Fred Harvey and his business empire, while other authors have explored related topics including the Santa Fe Railway, Native American art and culture, tourism, marketing, hospitality, architect Mary Colter, the Grand Canyon, the Fred Harvey Collection, Harvey Girls, and Harvey Houses.

The bibliography below includes books, journal articles, and videos focused primarily on Fred Harvey, the Fred Harvey Company, its employees, locations, collections, and related subjects. Works that only briefly mention Fred Harvey are generally not included.

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Fred Harvey & the Harvey Company

Books

Fried, Stephen. (2010). Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. Bantam Books.
Armstrong, William Patrick. (2000). Fred Harvey, Creator of Western Hospitality. Canyonlands Publications.
Henderson, James David. (1969). Meals by Fred Harvey: A Phenomenon of the American West. Texas Christian University Press.
Melzer, Richard. (2008). Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest. Arcadia Publishing.
Marshall, James L. (1945). "The Coming of Fred Harvey." In Santa Fe: The Railroad That Built an Empire. Random House.
Frailey, Fred W., & Bryant Jr., Keith L. (2020). "Fred Harvey and His Girls." In History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. University of Nebraska Press.

Harvey Girls, Hospitality & Tourism

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Poling-Kempes, Lesley. (1989). The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West. Paragon House.
Foster, George H., & Weiglin, Peter C. (2006). The Harvey House Cookbook: Memories of Dining Along the Santa Fe Railroad. Taylor Trade Publishing.
Latimer, Rosa Walston. (2014). Harvey Houses of Texas: Historic Hospitality from the Gulf Coast to the Panhandle. The History Press.
Latimer, Rosa Walston. (2015). Harvey Houses of Kansas: Historic Hospitality from Topeka to Syracuse. The History Press.
Latimer, Rosa Walston. (2015). Harvey Houses of New Mexico: Historic Hospitality from Raton to Deming. The History Press.
Latimer, Rosa Walston. (2019). Harvey Houses of Arizona: Historic Hospitality from Winslow to the Grand Canyon. The History Press.

Articles

Baker, Carissa, & Hover, Moniek. (2024). "Leveraging Historical Hospitality in the National Parks: Fred Harvey, Mary Colter, and the Heritage of the American Southwest." Journal of Heritage Tourism, 19(6), 816–838.
Ford, Robert C., Kwun, David J., & Van Fleet, David D. (2024). "Fred Harvey and the Santa Fe Railroad’s Brand Extension Strategy to Develop Southwestern Tourism in the USA in the Early 1900s." Tourism and Hospitality Research, 24(4), 602–614.
Owings, Alison. (2003). "Hey, Waitress!" Gastronomica, 3(1), 103–106.

Documentary

Parks, Katrina (Director). (2013). The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound [Film]. Assertion Films.

Mary Colter, Architecture & Design

Books

Berke, Arnold. (2002). Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest. Princeton Architectural Press.
Grattan, Virginia L. (1980). Mary Colter: Builder Upon the Red Earth. Northland Press.
Howard, Kathleen L., & Pardue, Diane F. (2016). Over the Edge: Fred Harvey at the Grand Canyon and in the Great Southwest. Rio Nuevo Publishers.

Articles

Lake, Christina. (2022). "Built in the Indian Spirit: How Mary Colter Sold the Southwest." The Journal of Arizona History, 63(1), 3–33.
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Reeder, Linda C. (2019). "Architect Mary E. J. Colter and the Arts and Crafts Movement." Journal of the Southwest, 61(3), 613–639.
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Reeder, Linda. (2019). "Case Studies in Resource Efficiency: Design and Construction in the Grand Canyon, 1921-28." Construction History, 34(1), 21–42.
Shepherd-Lanier, Claire. (1996). "Trading on Tradition: Mary Jane Colter and the Romantic Appeal of Harvey House Architecture." Journal of the Southwest, 38(2), 163–195.
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Mack, John. (2020). "A Place Like No Other: William Haskell Simpson and the Marketing of the El Tovar." Journal of the West, 59(1).

Native American Art, Culture & Representation

Books

Howard, Kathleen L., & Pardue, Diane F. (1996). Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art. Northland Publishing.
Frank, L., & Holbrook, M. J. (1978). Indian Silver Jewelry of the Southwest, 1868–1930. New York Graphic Society.
Wright, Barton. (1979). Hopi Material Culture: Artifacts Gathered by H.R. Voth in the Fred Harvey Collection. Northland Press.
Wright, Barton. (1976). Pueblo Shields from the Fred Harvey Fine Arts Collection. Northland Press.
Mather, Christine (Ed.). (1983). Colonial Frontiers: Art and Life in Spanish New Mexico: The Fred Harvey Collection. Ancient City Press.
Harvey, Byron. (1963). The Fred Harvey Collection, 1899–1963. Museum of Northern Arizona.
Luke, Timothy W. (2002). "Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art." In Museum Politics. University of Minnesota Press.

Articles

Davies, Cynthia. (1982). "Frontier Merchants and Native Craftsmen: The Fred Harvey Company Collects Indian Art." Journal of the West, 21(1), 120–125.
Curtin, Patricia. (2011). "Discourses of American Indian Racial Identity in the Public Relations Materials of the Fred Harvey Company: 1902–1936." Journal of Public Relations Research, 23(4), 368–396.
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Howard, K. L. (1999). "Weaving a Legend: Elle of Ganado Promotes the Indian Southwest." New Mexico Historical Review, 74(2), 127–153.
M'Closkey, Kathy. (1994). "Marketing Multiple Myths: The Hidden History of Navajo Weaving." Journal of the Southwest, 36(3), 185–220.
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Weigle, Marta. (1989). "From Desert to Disney World: The Santa Fe Railway and the Fred Harvey Company Display the Indian Southwest." Journal of Anthropological Research, 45(1), 115–137.
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Weigle, Marta. (1992). "Exposition and Mediation: Mary Colter, Erna Fergusson, and the Santa Fe/Harvey Popularization of the Native Southwest, 1902–1940." Frontiers, 12(3), 117–150.
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Railroads, Toursim & the Making of the Southwest

Books

Dye, Victoria E. (2005). All Aboard for Santa Fe: Railway Promotion of the Southwest, 1890s to 1930s. University of New Mexico Press.
Thomas, Diane H. (1978). The Southwestern Indian Detours: The Story of the Fred Harvey/Santa Fe Railway Experiment in Detourism. Hunter Publishing Co.
Weigle, Marta & Babcock, Barbara A. (Eds.). (1996). The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railway. University of Arizona Press.
Hofsommer, D. L., Schwantes, C. A., & Hansen, P. A. (2022). "Railroad Visionaries: Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell." In Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851–1921. Indiana University Press.
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Lake, Christina. (2027). Selling the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and the Making of Cultural Tourism. University of New Mexico Press.

Articles

Oliphant, Elizabeth L. (2017). "Marketing the Southwest: Modernism, the Fred Harvey Company, and the Indian Detour." American Literature, 89(1), 91–119.
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Tisdale, S. J. (1996). "Railroads, Tourism, and Native Americans in the Greater Southwest." Journal of the Southwest, 38, 433–462.
Weigle, Marta. (1990). "Southwest Lures: Innocents Detoured, Incensed Determined." Journal of the Southwest, 32(4), 499–540.
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Pace, Michael. (1983). "Emery Kolb and the Fred Harvey Company." The Journal of Arizona History, 24(4), 339–362.
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Pynes, Patrick. (2003). "Using Applied American Studies to Restore and Renovate the Colorado Plateau's Historic Gardens at La Posada." American Studies, 44(1), 253–270.
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Curtin, Patricia A. (2008). "Fred Harvey Company Public Relations and Publicity (1876–1933)." Journal of Communication Management, 12(4), 359–373.
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