Coast to Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, 1899–1908. By Curt McConnell. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 349. $45.00.
本书详细记录了1899至1908年间八次横跨北美大陆的早期汽车旅行，从失败到成功，并展示了旅行时间如何从63.5天缩短至15天。
Coast to Coast by Automobile is a detailed account of eight early efforts to drive across the North American continent. The first two expeditions, undertaken in 1899 and 1901, met with failure; but from 1903 to 1908, at least six groups successfully crossed from west to east. Dr. H. Nelson Jackson completed the first transcontinental journey on 26 July 1903, arriving in New York City in a stock 1903 Winton touring car approximately 63.5 days after he and his mechanic Sewall K. Crocker left San Francisco. Chapter 2 reports on the Jackson-Crocker venture, and subsequent chapters describe how later groups using teams of drivers managed to reduce total travel time to a little more than 15 days by 1906 and to five days by 1916.