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Coast to coast by automobile : the pioneering trips, 1899-1908 / Curt McConnell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McConnell, Curt, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Automobile travel--United States--History.
- Automobile travel.
- History.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Trailblazers 7
- Chapter 2 A Triumph Truly Remarkable 59
- Chapter 3 A Demonstration of Unfailing Reliability 95
- Chapter 4 Coast to Coast in a Machine of the Masses 147
- Chapter 5 A Faster Run in an Air-Cooled Auto 190
- Chapter 6 Coast to Coast in Fifteen Days 225
- Chapter 7 An Average Motorist in an Ordinary Car 266.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-342) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804733805
- OCLC:
- 42389501
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