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Driving Coast to Coast Against Death on the Top of the World
A year ago two New York women Blanche Stuart Scott and Gertrude Buffington Philips embarked to drive an automobile from Atlantic to Pacific. They faced fierce mountains storms and peril racing toward San Francisco from Cheyenne through Denver and Sherman Pass with a government permit and a bronze monument at the ridge as they battled the Rockies in a bold coast to coast expedition.
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New York City
Atlantic
Pacific
Blanche Stuart Scott
Bessis
Gertrude Buffington Philips
Phillips
Rocky Mountain
Gertrude Buffington Phillips
New York Herald Co
Pyrenees
Denver
New York
San Francisco
Betty
Rockies
Linb
Nevada
Bolt
Red
Journal
Cheyenne
Jaramie
Vailey
Sherman Pass
Ames
Medicine Bow
Mts
Wyoming
Cumberland
Evanston
Fin Roads
Medicine Butte
Carrie