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Book SynopsisDocumenting the very beginning of Americans' love affair with the automobile, the pieces in this volume offer a panorama of motoring travellers' visions of the burgeoning West in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Trade ReviewPeter Blodgett's
Motoring West, covering the period 1900 to 1909, includes accounts of automotive travel in the trans-Mississippi West by such able and eloquent guides as Hamlin Garland and William Dix. But the most effective guide of all is Blodgett, whose superb introduction to the volume - and to each carefully made selection - is a valuable roadmap through the existing scholarship on American automotive tourism in the first half of the twentieth century. This book should find its place on the shelf of everyone interested in the cultural history of the modern West, and in the glove box of every contemporary automotive traveler who wonders what the journeying experience was like a century ago."" - David M. Wrobel, author of
Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression""Peter Blodgett's
Motoring West is a TripTik through the enthusiasm, past the awe, over the excitement, and around the challenge experienced by the first automotive pioneers into the beckoning West. Thoughtfully assembled and skillfully introduced, this book re-illuminates the romance of the road that so seduced early-twentieth-century Americans."" - Terence Young, author of
Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850 - 1930
