Volume 1. 1900-1909. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Volume 1. Automobile pioneers, 1900-1909. Volume 1. Automobile pioneers, 1900-1909: The automobile as a vacation agent / William F. Dix, The Independent, June 1909. Automobiling in the West / Charles B. Shanks, Scientific American supplement, August 1901 -- A practical automobile touring outfit / Hrolf Wisby, Scientific American, March 1902 -- Automobiling in the West / Hamlin Garland, Harper's Weekly, September 1902 -- The automobile and automobiling / George Latham, Munsey's Magazine, May 1903 -- Frontiering in an automobile / Philip Delany, Outing, November 1903 -- From coast to coast in an automobile / M.C. Krarup, World's Work, May 1904 -- Camping out with an automobile / Hrolf Wisby, Outing, March 1905 -- From Hell Gate to Portland: the story of the race across the American continent in Oldsmobile runabouts, told by the men who rode and the man who looked on / Oldsmobile Motor Co., 1905; repr. 1931 -- Crossing the continent by automobile / Scientific American, January 1906 -- Across America in a Franklin / L.L. Whitman, H.H. Franklin Manufacturing Company, 1906 -- Motoring in the West / Arthur Inkersley, Franklin Hichborn, Allan Dunn, Wallace Everet, and others, Sunset, February 1907 -- The gasoline camel of the American desert / Barton W. Currie, Harper's Weekly, March 1907 -- The automobile vacation / Alfred Henry Goodwin, Country Life in America, 1907 -- How to tour in an automobile / Harry B. Haines, Scientific American, November 1907 -- Vacation by motor car / George Ethelbert Walsh, The Independent, April 1908 -- Coast to coast in a Brush runabout 1908 / Florence M. Trinkle, in a pamphlet by Floyd Clymer, 1952 -- The automobile as a vacation agent / William F. Dix, The Independent, June 1909.
Summary:
"Motoring West: Automobile Travelers in the trans-Mississippi West, 1900-1950, is a proposed multi-volume series that will present a wide range of auto touring narratives from the beginning of the automobile age through the Second World War. When appropriate, early motoring guides will supplement the narratives. The accounts of motoring tourists, lost to readers' eyes in the decades since they were first published, are an invaluable resource for understanding the early twentieth-century West and the roots of recreational motoring. The documents capture many insights about the amazing advances of automotive technology during the era, reveal the influence that the steadily expanding presence of the automobile exerted upon the development of the West, and illuminate the similarities and differences in the ways that men and women engaged both the automobile and the many Wests that they encountered in their travels"-- Provided by publisher.
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