The Record-Setting Trips

“Nobody has covered early transcontinental auto trips as well as McConnell, and I suspect nobody will supersede his efforts. In his new book, he makes eight motorcar treks across America’s vastness come alive. As his title indicates, these trips either set speed records or were so unusual—races, military experiments, tourist jaunts, or commercial tours—that they stood apart from earlier transcontinental efforts, and he has some colorful characters to talk about. The book is well written, and the photographs are superb.” —James A. Ward, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Curt McConnell, in addition to Coast-to-Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, is the author of Great Cars of the Great Plains, "A Reliable Car and a Woman Who Knows It": The First Coast-to-Coast Auto Trips by Women, 1899-1916, and Coast-to-Coast Auto Races of the Early 1900s.