American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs Davis Wes
American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs Davis Wes In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. In many…
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American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs Davis Wes
In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. In many ways, their timing could not have been worse. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford's Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalist's New England, the trip would prove to be the first of many excursions that would take Ford and Burroughs, together with an enthusiastic Thomas Edison, across America.Their road trips--increasingly ambitious in scope--transported members of the group to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, the Adirondacks of New York, and the Green Mountains of Vermont, finally paving the way for a grand 1918 expedition through southern Appalachia.
With war raging in Europe and an influenza pandemic that had already claimed thousands of lives abroad beginning to plague the United States,
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