{"id":6458,"date":"2026-08-07T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:46:24","slug":"first-woman-to-drive-across-america-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6458","title":{"rendered":"First Women to Drive Across America &#8211; 1909"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10562\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10562\" class=\"wp-image-10562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Alice-Huyler-Ramsey.jpg\" alt=\"Alice Huyler Ramsey\" width=\"171\" height=\"178\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Huyler Ramsey<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Alice Huyler Ramsey and three fellow female travelers in 1909 became the first women to drive across the country by\u00a0<\/strong><strong>automobile.<\/strong> They had left Manhattan on June 9, 1909, and finished in San Francisco, California. Only Ramsey could drive! She had to replace flat tires, fix brake pedals, and make other repairs. Only 152 miles of the 3,600 mile trip were paved. Ramsey wrote <em>Veil, Duster, and Tire Iron<\/em> to commemorate her trip. Older children could learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/womens-history\/alice-ramseys-historic-cross-country-drive-29114570\/?no-ist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alice Huyler Ramsey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Huyler Ramsey and three fellow female travelers in 1909 became the first women to drive across the country by\u00a0automobile. They had left Manhattan on June 9, 1909, and finished in San Francisco, California. Only Ramsey could drive! She had to replace flat tires, fix brake pedals, and make other repairs. Only 152 miles of <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6458' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5458,1011,5772,1012,5618],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5458","tag-alice-huyler-ramsey","tag-august-7","tag-first-woman-to-drive-across-united-states","tag-june-9","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29609,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions\/29609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}