Coast to Coast by Automobile The Pioneering Trips, 1899-1908 |
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| Author:
| McConnell, Curt |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-3380-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2000 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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This book engagingly explores the challenges met and overcome by the first motorists to drive across America. It cuts through the fiction, legends, and industry-produced propaganda that have long surrounded the first transcontinental automobile trips. The author has enriched his vivid account with 140 illustrations, the most complete photographic record ever assembled on the subject.
This book engagingly explores the challenges met and overcome by the first motorists to drive across America. It cuts through the fiction, legends, and industry-produced propaganda that have long surrounded the first transcontinental automobile trips. The author has enriched his vivid account with 140 illustrations, the most complete photographic record ever assembled on the subject.