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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the first transcontinental automobile trip across the United States made in 1903 in which a Vermont doctor, Horatio Jackson, his mechanic, Sewall J. Crocker, and a dog named Bud traveled from San Francisco to New York, in a landscape that had few paved roads, no gas stations, and no repair shops.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fascinating account of the greatest road trip in American history.
On July 7, 1919, an extraordinary cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey. Their goal was California, and ahead of them lay 3,250 miles of dirt, mud, rock, and sand. Sixty-two days later, they arrived in San Francisco, having averaged just five miles an hour. Known as the First Transcontinental Motor Train, this trip was an...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the difficulties faced by the first woman to make a cross-country journey from New York to San Francisco in an automobile in 1909.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent--a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific--Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning broadcaster and educator presents his experiences following the path of African Americans who traveled the country during the age of segregation using The Green Book, a guide which helped Black people travel safely.
12) "A reliable car and a woman who knows it": the first coast-to-coast auto trips by women, 1899-1916
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
ix, 174 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life--the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and...
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