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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 coasttocoast trips (described in the author's CoasttoCoast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, 18991908 (Stanford, 2000) were also attentiongrabbing 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 crosscountry 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 tripscarried in newspapers and magazines across the landcaptivated 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 crosscountry driving records when the few roads connecting cities were snowclogged in winter, mudbogged 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.
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