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1 online resource (28 pages). |
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The Advent of Automobiles anthology |
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The Advent of Automobiles anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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Original document: Book. |
| Summary |
"Being intended as a human document, detailing in brief the adventures, humorous and grim; reveries, ambitions, hungers, thirsts, disappointments, triumphs and reminiscences of two men who side by side crossed the American continent from California to Maine in an automobile runabout." |
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The more adventurous car owners took their vehicles on unprecedented trips of exploration. Although the road trip is a standard form of travel today, back in the early 1900s, widespread road travel was fraught with problems involving mechanical issues, incomplete or insufficient roads and unexpected weather challenges. This book talks aboutℓone such trip across America in 1903. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
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Whitman, Lester L. (Lester Lee), 1861-1932.
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Hammond, Eugene I. (Eugene Irish), 1880-1948.
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Automobile travel -- United States.
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Oldsmobile automobile.
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United States -- Description and travel.
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