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Motoring West - Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900-1909 (Paperback)
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Motoring West - Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900-1909 (Paperback)
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In the first years of the twentieth century, motoring across the
vast expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very least an
adventure and at most an audacious stunt. As more motorists
ventured forth, such travel became a curiosity and, within a few
decades, commonplace. For aspiring western travelers, automobiles
formed an integral part of their search for new experiences and
destinations - and like explorers and thrill seekers from earlier
ages, these adventurers kept records of their experiences. The
scores of articles, pamphlets, and books they published, collected
for the first time in Motoring West, create a vibrant picture of
the American West in the age of automotive ascendancy, as viewed
from behind the wheel. Documenting the very beginning of Americans'
love affair with the automobile, the pieces in this volume - the
first of a planned multivolume series - offer a panorama of
motoring travelers' visions of the burgeoning West in the first
decade of the twentieth century. Historian Peter J. Blodgett's
sources range from forgotten archives to company brochures to
magazines such as Harper's Monthly, Sunset, and Outing. Under
headlines touting adventures in ""touring,"" ""land cruising,"" and
""camping out with an automobile,"" voices from motoring's early
days instruct, inform, and entertain. They chart routes through
""wild landscapes,"" explain the finer points of driving coast to
coast in a Franklin, and occasionally prescribe ""touring
outfits."" Blodgett's engaging introductions to the volume and each
piece couch the writers' commentaries within their time. As reports
of the region's challenges and pleasures stirred interest and
spurred travel, the burgeoning flow of traffic would eventually and
forever alter the western landscape and the westering motorist's
experience. The dispatches in Motoring West illustrate not only how
the automobile opened the American West before 1909 to more and
more travelers, but also how the West began to change with their
arrival.
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