Motoring in White from Dakota to Cape Cod
New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1917.
First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. (2), 98 pp, with 7 plates from photographs. Original black boards lightly rubbed, else fine. A native of Bismarck, North Dakota, the author is best known for her philanthropic work on behalf of the American Braille Institute and other worthy causes. But she was also a writer, and this work is a charming example of the motoring narratives that proliferated in the early decades of the 20th century. Mr. Hughes--an engineer, inventor, and state legislator--owned the first automobile in North Dakota and had been pestering his wife to agree to a cross-county trip for years. She finally agreed, as long as she got to plan the route, stock the car with anything and everything a motor traveler might need, and, of course "keep a perfect log of the trip."
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