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- catalog abstract ""Coast to Coast by Automobile engagingly explores the challenges met and overcome by the first motorists to drive across America. Because automobiles were viewed with considerable interest and also considerable skepticism in this period, the extensive publicity that these trips generated played an important role in establishing the practicability, reliability, and widespread appeal of automobiles in early twentieth-century America. The author describes the first ten years of such pioneering trips, beginning in 1899 with the first attempt and concluding in 1908 when Jacob M. Murdock accomplished the unheard-of feat of driving his family from Los Angeles to New York City."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11633318.
- catalog coverage "United States Description and travel.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Coast to Coast by Automobile engagingly explores the challenges met and overcome by the first motorists to drive across America. Because automobiles were viewed with considerable interest and also considerable skepticism in this period, the extensive publicity that these trips generated played an important role in establishing the practicability, reliability, and widespread appeal of automobiles in early twentieth-century America. The author describes the first ten years of such pioneering trips, beginning in 1899 with the first attempt and concluding in 1908 when Jacob M. Murdock accomplished the unheard-of feat of driving his family from Los Angeles to New York City."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-342) and index.".
- catalog description "The Trailblazers -- A Triumph Truly Remarkable -- A Demonstration of Unfailing Reliability -- Coast to Coast in a Machine of the Masses -- A Faster Run in an Air-Cooled Auto -- Coast to Coast in Fifteen Days -- An Average Motorist in an Ordinary Car.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 349 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804733805 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "796.7/7/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Automobile travel United States History.".
- catalog subject "GV1021 .M23 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Trailblazers -- A Triumph Truly Remarkable -- A Demonstration of Unfailing Reliability -- Coast to Coast in a Machine of the Masses -- A Faster Run in an Air-Cooled Auto -- Coast to Coast in Fifteen Days -- An Average Motorist in an Ordinary Car.".
- catalog title "Coast to coast by automobile : the pioneering trips, 1899-1908 / Curt McConnell.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".