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Motoring West

Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900–1909

Peter J. Blodgett (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
360 Seiten
2016
University of Oklahoma Press (Verlag)
978-0-8061-5595-1 (ISBN)
27,35 inkl. MwSt
Documenting 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.
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.

Peter J. Blodgett is the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts at the Huntington Library and author of Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 11 black & white illustrations, 1 map
Verlagsort Oklahoma
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 558 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Auto / Motorrad
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
Reiseführer Nord- / Mittelamerika USA
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Weitere Fachgebiete Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8061-5595-7 / 0806155957
ISBN-13 978-0-8061-5595-1 / 9780806155951
Zustand Neuware
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