In 1909, Alice Ramsey and three friends completed the cross-country drive in 59 days, beating Jackson's time. They were sponsored by Maxwell-Briscoe, encountered the same obstacles, got ample press — and every article described them as 'pretty.'
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The hosts close with a quick tour of what came next. Bud lived out his days on the Jackson farm in Burlington, Vermont — not a euphemism, Josh confirms. Jackson went on to have a rich second act: business ventures, military service in WWI as a decorated veteran in his 40s, an unsuccessful run for governor of Vermont, and the eventual donation of the Vermont car and Bud's famous doggles to the Smithsonian. Sewell Crocker, the unsung genius who kept the car running for 3,000-plus miles, was sent to Mexico during the revolution, contracted an illness, and died around age 31 in 1913 — the one genuinely sad note in an otherwise joyful story. Six years after Jackson, Alice Ramsey and three friends completed the first women's cross-country drive in 59 days, sponsored by Maxwell-Briscoe [1] — Chuck "Alice Ramsey completed trip in 59 days (1909): Six years after Jackson, Alice Ramsey and three friends became the first women to drive cros…" 54:21 — covered extensively by a press that described them primarily as 'pretty.' And roughly 30 years after Jackson, Erwin 'Cannonball' Baker made the crossing in 54 hours, a record that Car and Driver magazine commemorated in the early 1970s with the event that became the Cannonball Run [2] — Josh "Record later cut to 54 hours: About 30 years after Jackson's trip, Erwin 'Cannonball' Baker set a cross-country record of 54 hours from New…" 55:36 .
Six years after Jackson, Alice Ramsey and three friends became the first women to drive cross-country, completing the trip in 59 days in 1909 sponsored by Maxwell-Briscoe.
About 30 years after Jackson's trip, Erwin 'Cannonball' Baker set a cross-country record of 54 hours from New York to LA — the inspiration for the modern Cannonball Run.
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