Motoring West Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900-1909, edited by Peter J. Blodgett.; Credit:
The relationship today between the car and Los Angeles could be described as tortured. Of course, it wasn’t always that way.
The advent of the automobile brought mobility, new experiences and a sense of adventure to the open West. For “Motoring West,” the first of a multi-volume series on the history of the automobile, editor and Huntington Library historian Peter Blodgett has put together a scores of articles, pamphlets and book excerpts to give readers a sense of what it was like to explore this part of the country during the early days of the automobile, when traveling by car was a novelty and not a drag.
Guests:
Peter Blodgett, Editor of “Motoring West Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900-1909” and Curator of Western American Manuscripts collection at the Huntington Library