Davis, Wes

Summary: "The epic road trips-and surprising friendship-of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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Guinn, Jeff

Summary: "A brilliant portrait of two American giants, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and America entering the automobile age, told through the fascinating but little-known narrative of the summer road trips taken by Edison and Ford"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019

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Ilʹf, Ilʹi͡a︡

Contents: The Road -- The Small Town -- Americans -- At the Birthplace of Mark Twain -- The Desert -- Indians -- California -- Hollywood -- Advertising -- Negroes -- New York.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cabinet Books 2007

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Steinbeck, John

Summary: "There is no writer more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. More than three decades after his death, he remains one of America's most beloved authors. Yet his nonfiction--the writings in which he spoke directly about his world--have long been overlooked. Now, in celebration of the centennial of his birth, this original collection brings together for the first time more than fifty of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002

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Ende, Bernice

Summary: Riding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swinging her leg over the saddle for that first long ride in 2005 (at the age of 51), Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback - alone. More than...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farcountry Press 2018

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Rockliff, Mara

Summary: "In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women's suffrage movement was in full swing, and Nell and Alice would...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016

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Long, McKenzie

Summary: "One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii This land is your land. When it comes to national monuments, the sentiment could hardly be more fraught. Gold Butte in Nevada, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico, Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine, Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022

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Hunt, Linda

Summary: In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to save her family's farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara's curling iron, set out on foot from...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005

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Philbrick, Nathaniel

Summary: "Does George Washington still matter? The bestselling author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021

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Pindell, Terry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Weidenfeld 1990

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Sullivan, Robert

Summary: The author chronicles his family's annual migration across the country from Oregon to New York, documenting the humor, and offbeat experiences of life on the road, wihle reflecting on such nation-crossing predecessors as Lewis and Clark.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2006

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Thompson, Bob

Summary: "Revolutionary Roads takes readers on a time-traveling adventure through the crucial places American independence was won and might have been lost. You'll ride shotgun with Bob Thompson as he puts more than 20,000 miles on his car, not to mention his legs; walks history-shaping battlefields from Georgia to Quebec; and hangs out with passionate lovers of revolutionary history whose vivid...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023

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