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Colt drove over to the Pratt home in Fredericksburg, piled the packages in the back of his station wagon and brought them back to the red brick museum in Richmond. When he recalls how casually he treated these treasures, he shudders...
...same ambition was reflected in Crosley's other two new models: a two-door, four-passenger station wagon ($929, f.o.b.); a ¼-ton-capacity panel delivery truck ($8.99 f.o.b.). Crosley considers himself in competition with the used car market. Said he: "I should like to make clear that our ambitions . . . are comparatively unpretentious...
...winter." Her father, a hotelkeeper in Santa Monica, laughed at Nellie's notion that Palm Springs would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations and good food," she said. "The auto roads will follow." Nellie went to Palm Springs and bought 1¼ acres and a bungalow on the lee (east) side of San Jacinto for $5,000. She set up a tent for herself, rented...
...days of the railroad builders, U.S. readers got St. Elmo and Under Two Flags. When the clipper ships were sailing to China, one of the popular novels was The Scarlet Letter. When the wagon trains were going over South Pass, it was Swiss Family Robinson. The year before Japan fell, it was Forever Amber...
Stereotyped into a great covered-wagon cliche, the early history of the American West often becomes a twisted fantasy of half-truths for a casual student of the pioneer era. American authors have universally glorified the Oregon Trial to the practical exclusion of all else. Multiplying with rabbit like precision, their books are the foundation of a narrow and inaccurate impression of western expansion. The title "pioneer" becomes exclusive property of the settler and the drive for a continent rests on the time-table of a wagon train snaking its way westward. "Across the Wide Missouri" deals in more basic...