Coast to Coast by Automobile 1st edition  The Pioneering Trips,
1899-1908  Coast to Coast by Automobile 1st edition
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Coast by Automobile: 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.  For each journey, the author asks the
following questions: What was the driver or sponsor trying to
accomplish, and why? Who was the driver (and