| The Pacific at last! | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| What we finally carried | 8 |
| Stowing the luggage | 12 |
| Leaving Gramercy Park, New York | 16 |
| Still in New York State | 20 |
| The crowd in less than a minute. “Out of the window” in Cleveland | 34 |
| One of the exciting things in motoring is wondering what sort of a hotel you will arrive at for the night | 44 |
| Hours and hours, across land as flat and endless as the ocean | 84 |
| A bedroom in the Union Pacific Hotel, North Platte—not much of a hardship, is it? | 108 |
| A straight, wide road; not even a shack in sight—and a speed limit of twenty miles an hour | 112 |
| Wyoming in the ranch country | 116 |
| Cripple Creek | 120 |
| In the Garden of the Gods | 124 |
| Colorado. Pike’s Peak in the distance | 128 |
| First cowboys and cattle | 132 |
| Halfway across a thrilling ford, wide and deep, on the Huerfano River | 136 |
| A glimpse of the West of yesterday | 140 |
| Your route leads through many Mexican and Indian villages | 148 |
| The Indian pueblo of Taos | 160 |
| To see the sleeping beauty of the Southwest, the path is by no means a smooth one to the motorist | 170 |
| Across the real desert | 180 |
| Our chauffeur takes a day off at the Grand Canyon of the Colorado | 184 |
| This is not a gallery in a Spanish palace, but a gallery in the Mission Inn at Riverside, California | 188 |
| In a California garden | 192 |
| Under Santa Barbara skies | 196 |
| Ostrich Rock, Monterey, California | 200 |
| On the seventeen-mile drive at Monterey | 208 |
| On a beautiful ocean road of California | 216 |
| The portico of a California house | 226 |
| Sometimes we struck a bad road | 244 |
| In order to cross here, E. M. built a bridge with the logs at the right | 248 |
| On the famous “staked plains” of the Southwest | 254 |
About This Book
A firsthand account of a cross‑country automobile journey from the eastern states to the Pacific, describing routes, road conditions, mechanical breakdowns, weather and the hospitality encountered en route. The narrative mixes vivid impressions of plains, deserts, mountain scenery, southwestern villages and coastal approaches with reflections on motoring manners and local character. Practical chapters offer advice on equipment, clothing, expenses, maps and photographic documentation, while episodic anecdotes cover hotels, fords, bridges and exposition sights near the journey’s end. The writer repeatedly notes the limits of fleeting observations and frames the report as one personal perspective on early long‑distance motoring.