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McConnell cuts through the fiction, legends, and industry-produced propaganda that have long surrounded the first transcontinental automobile trips as he relates long-lost personal accounts by pioneering travelers. 140 illustrations.

The audacity of driving a horseless carriage from coast to coast in the early years of the 20th century is hard to imagine in an age of superhighways and global positioning systems.For a woman to attempt the trip was, at the time, a jaw-dropping event. Yet in 1909, 22-year-old Alice Ramsey and three female companions piled into a Maxwell in New York City, and 59 days later they triumphantly rolled into San Francisco. A few years later silent f...

This lavishly illustrated book explores the vast publicity surrounding eight milestone transcontinental auto trips in the early 20th century, and how this publicity produced a variety of changes in American life. The trips reflected the remarkable achievements in automobile technology and durability, and demonstrated the automobile's recreational, military, and commercial possibilities as well.