On this day in 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22 year old Vassar grad and now housewife living in Hackensack, New Jersey embarked on an automobile trip. She left from New York City with three companions, two older sisters-in-law and a woman friend. She was the only one of them who could drive. Fifty-nine days later when they arrived in San Francisco, she became the first woman to drive across the continent. Her adventures were recorded in a memoir Veil, Duster & Tire Iron.
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