Lincoln Highway near Soda Springs, Cal.ACROSS THE CONTINENT
BY
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
By
EFFIE PRICE GLADDING
ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS
New York
BRENTANO'S
1915
Copyright, 1915,
BY
Effie Price Gladding
Manufactured by
Rowland & Ives
225 Fifth Avenue
New York
Dedicated to
Lovers of the open road and the flying wheel.
"My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing."
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 7
Chapter I 11
Chapter II 22
Chapter III 37
Chapter IV 57
Chapter V 76
Chapter VI 92
Chapter VII 111
Chapter VIII 142
Chapter IX 169
Chapter X 191
Chapter XI 210
Chapter XII 227
Chapter XIII 257
INTRODUCTION
A FOREWORD THAT IS A RETROSPECT
From the Pacific to the Atlantic by the Lincoln Highway, with Californiaand the Virginias and Maryland thrown in for good measure! What a tourit has been! As we think back over its miles we recall the noble pinesand the towering Sequoias of the high Sierras of California; theflashing water-falls of the Yosemite, so green as to be called Vernal,so white as to be called Bridal Veil; the orchards of the prune, thecherry, the walnut, the olive, the almond, the fig, the orange, and thelemon, tilled like a garden, watered by the hoarded and guarded streamsfrom the everlasting hills; and the rich valleys of grain, running up tothe hillsides and dotted by live oak trees. We recall miles of vineyardunder perfect cultivation. We see again the blue of the Pac