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This lavishly illustrated book explores the vast publicity surrounding eight milestone transcontinental auto trips in the early twentieth century, and how this publicity produced a variety of changes in American life. Earlier coast-to-coast trips (described in the author's Coast-to-Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, 1899-1908 (Stanford, 2000) were also attention-grabbing events, but it was not until Pennsylvania lumberman Jacob Murdock became the first man to drive his family across the continent, that the average American began to see the automobile as a useful, practical means of traveling long distances. Murdock's trip ended the period when automakers (and others) would sponsor a cross-country trip merely to prove that it could be done. The later trips chronicled in this book reflected the remarkable developments in automobile technology and durability, and demonstrated the automobile's recreational, military, and commercial possibilities as well. The accounts of these exciting trips--carried in newspapers and magazines across the land--captivated Americans. Our familiarity with modern interstate highways only increases our wonder that in the early twentieth century adventurous motorists were resourceful and determined enough to establish cross-country driving records when the few roads connecting cities were snow-clogged in winter, mud-bogged in spring, and pockmarked with deep and dusty ruts the rest of the year. These trips, which vividly illustrated what one observer called the crying need for good roads in the United States, are illustrated by some 125 rare photographs.
About the Author: Curt McConnell, in addition to Coast-to-Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, is the author of Great Cars of the Great Plains, A Reliable Car and a Woman Who Knows It: The First Coast-to-Coast Auto Trips by Women, 1899-1916, and Coast-to-Coast Auto Races of the Early 1900s.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780804743969
  • Publisher: Stanford General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Stanford General Books
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 1115 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0804743967
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jan 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 260 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: By Auto from Coast to Coast, 1909-1916
  • Width: 223 mm


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