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"People thought I was crazy."

Reno, Nevada
· ~Alice Ramsey
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In 1909, twenty-two year old Alice Ramsey became the first woman to drive across the United States in an automobile. She and her three female companions crossed the Nevada desert east of the Truckee Meadows in her 1909 Maxwell Briscoe.
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