americana-plus: On this day in 1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother f
americana-plus: On this day in 1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the USA, driving a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days with three non-driving female companions. -- source link