Motor Girls How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century SUE MACY FOREWORD BY DANICA PATRICK NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WASHINGTON D.C.
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Michigan CONTENTS 6 Foreword by Danica Patrick 8 Introduction by Sue Macy 10 26 CHAPTER 1 America Meet the Motor Car FEATURE Motoring Laws 28 40 CHAPTER 2 The Time of Her Life FEATURE Mind Your Manners 42 54 CHAPTER 3 Going the Distance FEATURE The Well Dressed Motorist 56 CHAPTER 4 The Need for Speed 68 FEATURE Road Reads Dust jacket front cover top Pioneer motorist Alice 70 CHAPTER 5 Driving for Liberty Ramsey takes the wheel during 84 FEATURE Motoring Milestones her 1909 drive across the United States She won the bronze medal on her cap by getting a perfect 86 EPILOGUE Bumpy Roads score in an endurance race in New York Bottom Ramsey and her three 89 APPENDIX Shifting Gears companions in their Maxwell automo bile on a rural dirt road Back cover Joan Newton Cuneo drives through 92 Resources Saratoga Springs New York during the 1908 Glidden endurance race Front flap 93 Sources of Quotes Alice Ramsey and her passengers in 1909 Case cover In 1909 four women in a 95 Index Jackson brand automobile show participants in the Glidden endurance race the way to 96 Photo Credits and Jackson Michigan Acknowledgments Half title page A woman shows off her car in 1908 Title page In this 1910 publicity shot for the Mercer motor car a woman peers off into the future Left Irene Wright gets a preview of a 1912 model at the Chalmers automobile factory in Detroit
