The Record-Setting Trips
By Auto from Coast to Coast, 1909-1916
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ISBN-13:
9780804743969
Veröffentl:
2003
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.01.2003
Seiten:
336
Autor:
Curt Mcconnell
Gewicht:
1066 g
Format:
260x223x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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. >
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