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Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Telegraph—July 22, 1921; August 3, 1923; August 22 and 23, 1924.
Houston Chronicle—August 10, 1919; July 18 and August 28, 1924.
Huntington (Indiana) Press—August 8, 22, and 23, 1923.
Idaho Daily Statesman—October 20, 1915.
Helena, Montana, Independent Record—August 22, 1923.
Greenwood, South Carolina, Index-Journal—August 18, 1923.
Indiana (Pennsylvania) Gazette—August 23, 1923.
Indianapolis News—August 7, 1923; August 22, 1924.
Indianapolis Star—August 22, 1923.
Iola (Kansas) Register—August 19, 1924.
Iowa City Press-Citizen—August 25, 1923.
Ironwood (Michigan) Daily Globe—August 23, 1923; August 19, 1924.
Mattoon, Illinois, Journal Gazette—July 30, 1921; August 27, 1923.
Hamilton, Ohio, Journal News—August 10, 1923; August 19, 1924.
Kansas City Times—August 15 and 26, 1919.
Kingston (New York) Daily Freeman—August 28 and September 2, 1916; November 15, 1920.
Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle-Gazette—July 31, August 7, 9, and 28, 1923; August 16 and 19, 1924.
Lansing (Michigan) State Journal—August 17, 18, and 23, 1923.
Leavenworth (Kansas) Times—November 24, 1920.
Lebanon (Pennsylvania) Daily News—August 17, 1923; August 19, 1924.
Lebanon (Pennsylvania) Semi-Weekly News—August 23, 1923.
Lexington (Kentucky) Herald—July 23, 1919.
Lincoln Evening Journal—July 23, 1921; August 10, 1923; August 19, 1924.
Logansport (Indiana) Pharos-Tribune—August 29, 1918; August 10, 1923; August 19, 1924.
Los Angeles Times—October 20, 28, and 30, 1915; August 23 and 27, 1923; August 19 and 20, 1924.
Louisville Courier-Journal—August 11 and 13, 1982.
Macon (Georgia) Daily Telegraph—September 3, 1916; August 31, 1919.
Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Herald-Time—November 19, 1920.
Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune—August 19, 1924.
Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News—August 20, 1924.
Middletown (New York) Times-Press—August 29, 1916.
Modesto (California) Daily News—August 8, 1923.
Montrose (Pennsylvania) Democrat—August 23, 1923.
Monroe (Louisiana) News-Star—August 19, 1924.
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Morning Herald—August 2 and 6, 1921.
Wilmington, Morning News—July 26, 1921; August 22, 1923.
Portland Morning Oregonian—October 20, 1915.
Yuma, Arizona, Morning Sun—August 7, 1923.
Muskogee (Oklahoma) County Democrat—July 28, 1921.
Nevada State Journal—October 20, 1915.
New Castle (Pennsylvania) Herald—August 3, 1921; September 6 and 12, 1923.
New Castle (Pennsylvania) News—August 11, 1923; August 21, 1924.
Franklin, Pennsylvania, News-Herald—July 23 and August 2, 1921; August 11, 1923; August 18, 1924.
Morgantown, North Carolina, News-Herald—September 5, 1918.
Wilmington News Journal—July 23, 1921; August 1 and 23, 1923; August 19 and 21, 1924.
New York Herald—September 5, 1920.
New York Sun—August 26, 1916.
New York Telegraph—July 25, 1921.
New York Times—January 18, 1903; January 5 and 11, February 22, March 7, and May 11, 1914; October 12, 1915; August 29 and 30, September 1, 9, 11, and 24, 1916; August 25, 1918; August 5, 1919; November 13 and 21, 1920; July 23, 24, 25, 29, and 31, 1921; August 5, 11, 12, 17, 22, 23, and 25, September 27, October 18, 1923; August 13, 14, 19, 20, and 24, 1924; February 7, 1925; February 11, July 31, and November 29, 1927.
New York Tribune—November 14, 16, and 21, 1920.
New York World—August 19, 1924.
Oakland (California) Tribune—November 7, 1915; November 21, 1920; July 26, 1921; August 23, 1924.
Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner—August 6, 1921.
Portland Oregon Daily Journal—August 16, 1918; August 9 and 12, 1919; November 16, 1920; July 24, 1921.
Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern—August 10, 21, 22, and 23, 1923.
West Palm Beach (Florida) Post—July 24, 1921.
Bloomington, Illinois, Pentagraph—August 20, 1924.
Philadelphia Inquirer—October 16, 1915; July 28, 1921; August 11, 1923; August 19 and 21, 1924.
Pittsburgh Daily Post—August 18, 19, and 20, 1918; August 8 and 22, 1923; August 20, 1924.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—August 18, 19, and 21, 1918; July 23, 1921; August 11, 1923.
Pittsburgh Press—August 17, 18, and 19, 1918; July 24, 1921; August 8, 1923.
Portsmouth (Ohio) Daily Times—August 4, 1921; August 8, 1923.
Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Herald—August 20, 1924.
Columbus, Indiana, Republic—August 23, 1923.
Raleigh State Journal—September 6, 1918.
Reading (Pennsylvania) Times—September 3, 1918; August 3, 1923.
Riverside (California) Daily Press—November 2, 5, and 17, 1915.
Rochester, New York, Democrat and Chronicle—August 19, 1923.
Salinas (Kansas) Daily Union—July 23, 1921.
Salisbury (North Carolina) Evening Post—August 29, 1918.
San Antonio Express—November 17, 1920.
San Bernardino County (California) Sun—December 11, 1920.
San Diego Union—January 12, 1910; August 9, 1910; October 15, 1915; March 22, 1979.
Sandusky (Ohio) Star-Journal—August 25, 1916.
San Francisco Chronicle—October 20, 21, 22, and 30, 1915.
San Jose Evening News—October 25, 1915; July 26, 1921.
San Jose Mercury Herald—October 19, 20, 23, and 24, 1915; September 3, 1916; July 25, 1919.
Santa Ana (California) Register—July 22, 1921; August 22, 1923; August 19, 1924.
Scranton Republican—August 29, 1924.
St. Joseph (Missouri) Observer—August 1, 1924.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch—July 22, 1921; August 10, 11, 18, 19, 21, and 23, 1923; August 19, 20, and 22, 1924.
St. Louis Star and Times—July 23 and 24, 1921; August 1, 1923.
Pittsburg, Kansas, Sun—December 5, 1920.
Shreveport, Times—August 2, 1923.
Richmond, Times Dispatch—August 27, 1918.
Olean, New York, Times Herald—July 23, 1921; August 1, 1923; August 19, 1924.
Port Huron, Michigan, Times Herald—November 19, 1920; August 12, 1921; August 13 and 27, 1923.
Zanesville, Ohio, Times Recorder—August 19, 1924.
Winston-Salem, Twin-City Daily Sentinel—August 30 and 31, 1918.
Winston-Salem, Union Republican—September 5, 1918.
Vancouver (British Columbia) World—Undated article undoubtedly from August 1923.
Vicksburg (Mississippi) Evening Post—July 23, 1921.
Waco (Texas) News-Tribune—August 22 and 27, 1923.
Wall Street Journal—August 20, 1924.
Washington (D.C.) Herald—August 18, 1918.
Washington Post—August 27 and September 2, 1918; December 5, 1920; July 24, 1921; August 1, 5, 22, and 23, 1923; August 19 and 20, September 8, 1924.
Washington (D.C.) Times—August 30, 1916; August 9 and 11, 1919; November 18 and December 11, 1920; July 24, 1921.
Waxahachie (Texas) Daily Light—August 10, 1923.
Alexandria, Louisiana, Weekly Town Talk—August 25, 1923.
Wilkes-Barre Record—July 29, 1921.
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader Evening News—August 21, 1918; July 29, 1921; August 20, 1924.
Winston-Salem Journal—August 30, 1918.
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Adams County Free Press, 154–55
Adirondacks Mountains:
roads and, 130
Vagabonds’ trip to, 66, 68–76, 78–81, 125–28, 130–31, 135
Akron Beacon Journal, 214
Alabama, 169, 184, 189–90
Albion, Michele Wehrwein, 17
Allison, F., 194–95
American Automobile Association, 51
American Farm Bureau Federation, 243
American Revolution, 123, 125, 221
Americans on the Road (Belasco), 147, 266n
Anderson, Jennie, 182
Anderson, William F., 164–65, 174–75, 177, 179–80, 182, 184, 205
Arizona Daily Star, 236
Arizona Republic, 216
Asheville, N.C., 106–8
Asheville Citizen-Times, 155
Associated Press, 179, 213, 216, 255n
Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers (ALAM), 119–20
Atlanta Constitution, 181
Automobile Club of Southern California, 51–52
automobiles, 137–39, 182–83, 186, 239
ALAM and, 119–20
autocamping and, 2, 70, 146–47, 149–50, 152–53, 162–64, 171, 196–97, 207, 227, 240, 251
batteries for, 18, 20–21, 93, 160, 194–95
Burroughs on, 21–22
crime and, 196–97
and Ford’s innovations and energy, 3, 12–13, 18–21, 33–34
Ford’s politics and, 104
and Ford’s relationship with Edison’s wife, 151
Ford’s repairing of, 95–96, 101, 109–10
in Fort Myers, 17–18, 31
gas for, 2–3, 18, 20, 69, 93–94, 100, 102, 119–20, 126, 147
new models of, 242–43
in Paris, 2–7, 9, 208
planning Vagabonds’ first trip and, 68
press on, 146–47
prices of, 3, 12–13, 44, 69, 98
proliferation of, 2, 12, 51, 137, 146–47, 162–64, 226, 266n
racing of, 76, 96
roads and, 2–3, 12–13, 51, 53, 69–70, 93, 95–97, 101–2, 111, 119, 162–63, 196–97, 225–26
speed limits on, 51–53
steam-powered, 93
styles of, 226
tires of, 2, 12–13, 27, 42, 58, 69, 87, 93, 96–98, 128, 139, 202, 248
Vagabonds’ Adirondacks trip and, 69–70, 74, 80, 126
Vagabonds’ Everglades trip and, 27–31
Vagabonds’ Milan trip and, 202
Vagabonds’ New Hampshire trip and, 235
Vagabonds’ origins and, 57–58
Vagabonds’ Plymouth Notch trip and, 231
Vagabonds’ San Diego trip and, 51–54, 57
Vagabonds’ San Francisco trip and, 41
Vagabonds’ Southern trip and, 88–90, 92–96, 100–101, 107–10
and Vagabonds’ trip with Harding, 166–68, 174
Vagabonds’ Upper Michigan Peninsula trip and, 207, 213–14
Baldwin, Neil, 219, 241
Baltimore Sun, 178, 186
Barnum, P. T., 60–61
Barrus, Clara, 156
Battle Creek Enquirer, 4, 255n
Beasley, Fred, 182–83
Belasco, Warren James, 147, 266n
Bell, Alexander Graham, 38
Benson Ford Research Center, 248
Bickel, Karl A., 185–86
Bisbee, Jep:
finances of, 8, 10, 253
musical career of, 5–10, 208, 251–53
Vagabonds’ visits with, 5–11, 208, 251–53, 255n
Bisbee, Sarah, 5–9, 252
Bisbee Daily Review, 155
blacks, 109, 171, 183, 237
racism and, 116, 132, 198
Bogue, Lucy, 26
Boston Morning Globe, 237
Boston Post, 68
Brauer, Norman, 134, 255n, 263n–64n
Bridgestone Corporation, 250
Brooklyn Citizen, 181
Burbank, Luther, 41–42, 48–49, 128, 260n
Burroughs, John, 147–50, 172
Adirondacks trip of, 70–76, 80, 126–27, 130–31, 135
antisemitism and, 131–32
comparisons between Edison and, 207
Cuba trip of, 81
death of, 156, 162, 170
Edison’s relationship with, 23, 71–72, 74, 130–31, 149, 156, 162
Everglades trip of, 23–31, 57, 257n, 259n
finances of, 23, 71, 91–92, 138–39
Firestone’s relationship with, 80, 99, 156, 248
Ford’s relationship with, 21–23, 61–62, 71–72, 91–92, 124, 130–31, 148, 156
Fort Myers trip of, 11, 14, 17–18, 23–25, 31, 259n
illnesses of, 80, 149
and joke about Vagabonds, 150
ornithological interests of, 22–23, 91, 100
personality of, 21, 71, 91, 101–2, 111, 130, 248, 259n
physical appearance of, 149–50, 156
planning Vagabonds’ first trip and, 66–68
popularity and fame of, 11, 71, 76, 95, 131, 137, 263n
press on, 23, 68, 71–72, 74, 90, 127, 135, 153–56, 162
on South, 90, 102, 263n
Southern trip of, 90–97, 99–102, 105, 107–8, 111
Vagabonds’ origins and, 4, 57–58
Vermont trip of, 133–34
World War I and, 61–62, 92
Yama Farms trips of, 149, 152–55
Burroughs, Julian, 22, 91
Burroughs, Ursula, 81, 155
Burton, M. L., 225
Caledonian-Record, 133
Camel cigarettes, 109
Camp Cha-Ton-Ka, 212–13
Capps, Edwin M., 55–57, 64–65
Carson, Frank, 25, 27, 29–30
Casey, Robert, 193
Chalmers, George, 233–34
Cheat River, 164, 185
Chicago Tribune, 64–65, 76, 118, 120–26, 134, 144, 162, 186–87, 223
Chicago White Sox, 117–18
Civil War, 79, 88, 115, 183
Collier’s, 202
communism, 116–18
Concord, Mass., 22–23
Congress, U.S., 77, 171, 234
Muscle Shoals projects and, 169, 183–84, 189–90, 238, 269n
see also Senate, U.S.
Connellsville, Pa., 95–96
Conot, Robert, 33
Coolidge, Calvin, 116, 157, 205, 209–10, 247
Ford’s presidential ambitions and, 210, 219, 272n
Muscle Shoals projects and, 219, 224–25, 235, 238
Plymouth Notch trip of, 229–38, 240
press on, 230–38
son’s death and, 230–31
Coolidge, Calvin, Jr., 230–31
Coolidge, Grace, 229–35, 237
Coolidge, John, 231–33, 235
Couzens, James, 44–47, 113
Cox, James M., 156–57
Crowther, Samuel, 194
Cuba, 16, 81
Davis, John W., 234
Dawes, Charles G., 237–38
Dearborn Independent, 114, 140–44, 168, 192–93
antisemitic content of, 143–44, 147, 159, 183, 193, 224, 243–44
Edison and, 121–22, 141–42
finances of, 141–42
shutting down of, 244, 246
Dearborn Massacre, 249
Deep Lake, 25–26, 28, 257n
DeLoach, R. J. H., 89–90, 93, 96–97, 108
Dodge, John and Horace, 113
Eaton, Lady, 153
Edison (Baldwin), 241
Edison, Charles, 18, 140
Everglades trip of, 25, 27–30, 259n
Edison, Madeleine, 17–18
Everglades trip of, 26–29, 248
Edison, Mary, 150
Edison, Mina, 148, 204–8, 245
Bisbee visited by, 7, 9, 208, 252
Everglades trip of, 26–29, 31, 57
Ford’s presidential ambi
tions and, 214
Ford’s relationship with, 33, 151–52
Ford’s wife’s relationship with, 21, 32
Fort Myers trips of, 11, 15–18, 31
Harding’s death and, 204–5
Harding’s trip with, 165, 170, 172–73, 175, 181–82, 184
husband defended by, 184–85
husband’s death and, 248
husband’s illnesses and, 24, 223
husband’s relationship with, 150–51
Milan trip of, 201–2
New Hampshire trip of, 222, 231, 236–37
San Francisco trip of, 37, 40, 42, 47, 49
Swallow Falls trip of, 182–83
Upper Michigan Peninsula trip of, 207–9, 213–15
Wayside Inn trip of, 228
World War I and, 85
Yama Farms trip of, 152–54, 163
Edison, Theodore, 18, 162, 182
Everglades trip of, 25–26, 28, 30
Vagabonds’ Upper Michigan Peninsula trip and, 213–14
Edison, Thomas A.:
Adirondacks trip of, 70, 72–76, 78–81, 126–28, 130–31, 135
antisemitism and, 131–33, 159–60, 223
auto batteries and, 18, 20–21, 93, 160
awards and honors of, 16, 37–43, 47–48, 54–57, 79, 109, 200, 205–6, 246–47, 250–51, 253
Bisbee’s meetings with, 7–11, 252
Burbank’s meeting with, 48–49, 128
Burroughs’s relationship with, 23, 71–72, 74, 130–31, 149, 156, 162
business judgment of, 129–30
comparisons between Burroughs and, 207
comparisons between Ford and, 4, 20–21, 50, 77, 86, 97, 135, 145, 148, 151
Coolidge’s son’s death and, 230–31
death of, 242, 247–50
electric truck project and, 160, 194–95
and end of Vagabonds’ road trips, 239–41, 245–46
Everglades trip of, 23–32, 37, 57, 135, 257n
factory fire of, 32–33
film industry contributions of, 14, 35, 38, 50, 71, 77, 129, 218
finances of, 15–17, 19–20, 32–33, 58, 67, 93, 128–30, 140–41, 151, 187, 242, 260n
Firestone’s relationship with, 75, 99, 130, 160–61, 202, 217–19, 242, 248–50
Ford’s lawsuits and, 118, 223
Ford’s museum and, 246–47
Ford’s newspaper and, 121–22, 141–42
Ford’s presidential ambitions and, 199, 202, 211, 214–15, 223
Ford’s relationship with, 4, 18–21, 31–35, 37, 39–42, 59, 61–63, 66, 68, 80, 82, 89, 92, 97, 100, 105, 118, 121–22, 124, 129, 131, 160, 167, 184, 199, 223, 246–50
Fort Myers trips of, 11–12, 14–17, 20–21, 23–25, 31, 62–63, 241–42
Harding’s death and, 202–5, 214