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Adams County Free Press, 154–55
Adirondacks Mountains:
roads and, 130
Vagabonds’ trip to, 66, 68–76, 78–81, 125–28, 130–31, 135
Akron Beacon Journal, 214
Alabama, 169, 184, 189–90
Albion, Michele Wehrwein, 17
Allison, F., 194–95
American Automobile Association, 51
American Farm Bureau Federation, 243
American Revolution, 123, 125, 221
Americans on the Road (Belasco), 147, 266n
Anderson, Jennie, 182
Anderson, William F., 164–65, 174–75, 177, 179–80, 182, 184, 205
Arizona Daily Star, 236
Arizona Republic, 216
Asheville, N.C., 106–8
Asheville Citizen-Times, 155
Associated Press, 179, 213, 216, 255n
Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers (ALAM), 119–20
Atlanta Constitution, 181
Automobile Club of Southern California, 51–52
automobiles, 137–39, 182–83, 186, 239
ALAM and, 119–20
autocamping and, 2, 70, 146–47, 149–50, 152–53, 162–64, 171, 196–97, 207, 227, 240, 251
batteries for, 18, 20–21, 93, 160, 194–95
Burroughs on, 21–22
crime and, 196–97
and Ford’s innovations and energy, 3, 12–13, 18–21, 33–34
Ford’s politics and, 104
and Ford’s relationship with Edison’s wife, 151
Ford’s repairing of, 95–96, 101, 109–10
in Fort Myers, 17–18, 31
gas for, 2–3, 18, 20, 69, 93–94, 100, 102, 119–20, 126, 147
new models of, 242–43
in Paris, 2–7, 9, 208
planning Vagabonds’ first trip and, 68
press on, 146–47
prices of, 3, 12–13, 44, 69, 98
proliferation of, 2, 12, 51, 137, 146–47, 162–64, 226, 266n
racing of, 76, 96
roads and, 2–3, 12–13, 51, 53, 69–70, 93, 95–97, 101–2, 111, 119, 162–63, 196–97, 225–26
speed limits on, 51–53
steam-powered, 93
styles of, 226
tires of, 2, 12–13, 27, 42, 58, 69, 87, 93, 96–98, 128, 139, 202, 248
Vagabonds’ Adirondacks trip and, 69–70, 74, 80, 126
Vagabonds’ Everglades trip and, 27–31
Vagabonds’ Milan trip and, 202
Vagabonds’ New Hampshire trip and, 235
Vagabonds’ origins and, 57–58
Vagabonds’ Plymouth Notch trip and, 231
Vagabonds’ San Diego trip and, 51–54, 57
Vagabonds’ San Francisco trip and, 41
Vagabonds’ Southern trip and, 88–90, 92–96, 100–101, 107–10
and Vagabonds’ trip with Harding, 166–68, 174
Vagabonds’ Upper Michigan Peninsula trip and, 207, 213–14
Baldwin, Neil, 219, 241
Baltimore Sun, 178, 186
Barnum, P. T., 60–61
Barrus, Clara, 156
Battle Creek Enquirer, 4, 255n
Beasley, Fred, 182–83
Belasco, Warren James, 147, 266n
Bell, Alexander Graham, 38
Benson Ford Research Center, 248
Bickel, Karl A., 185–86
Bisbee, Jep:
finances of, 8, 10, 253
musical career of, 5–10, 208, 251–53
Vagabonds’ visits with, 5–11, 208, 251–53, 255n
Bisbee, Sarah, 5–9, 252
Bisbee Daily Review, 155
blacks, 109, 171, 183, 237
racism and, 116, 132, 198
Bogue, Lucy, 26
Boston Morning Globe, 237
Boston Post, 68
Brauer, Norman, 134, 255n, 263n–64n
Bridgestone Corporation, 250
Brooklyn Citizen, 181
Burbank, Luther, 41–42, 48–49, 128, 260n
Burroughs, John, 147–50, 172
Adirondacks trip of, 70–76, 80, 126–27, 130–31, 135
antisemitism and, 131–32
comparisons between Edison and, 207
Cuba trip of, 81
death of, 156, 162, 170
Edison’s relationship with, 23, 71–72, 74, 130–31, 149, 156, 162
Everglades trip of, 23–31, 57, 257n, 259n
finances of, 23, 71, 91–92, 138–39
Firestone’s relationship with, 80, 99, 156, 248
Ford’s relationship with, 21–23, 61–62, 71–72, 91–92, 124, 130–31, 148, 156
Fort Myers trip of, 11, 14, 17–18, 23–25, 31, 259n
illnesses of, 80, 149
and joke about Vagabonds, 150
ornithological interests of, 22–23, 91, 100
personality of, 21, 71, 91, 101–2, 111, 130, 248, 259n
physical appearance of, 149–50, 156
planning Vagabonds’ first trip and, 66–68
popularity and fame of, 11, 71, 76, 95, 131, 137, 263n
press on, 23, 68, 71–72, 74, 90, 127, 135, 153–56, 162
on South, 90, 102, 263n
Southern trip of, 90–97, 99–102, 105, 107–8, 111
Vagabonds’ origins and, 4, 57–58
Vermont trip of, 133–34
World War I and, 61–62, 92
Yama Farms trips of, 149, 152–55
Burroughs, Julian, 22, 91
Burroughs, Ursula, 81, 155
Burton, M. L., 225
Caledonian-Record, 133
Camel cigarettes, 109
Camp Cha-Ton-Ka, 212–13
Capps, Edwin M., 55–57, 64–65
Carson, Frank, 25, 27, 29–30
Casey, Robert, 193
Chalmers, George, 233–34
Cheat River, 164, 185
Chicago Tribune, 64–65, 76, 118, 120–26, 134, 144, 162, 186–87, 223
Chicago White Sox, 117–18
Civil War, 79, 88, 115, 183
Collier’s, 202
communism, 116–18
Concord, Mass., 22–23
Congress, U.S., 77, 171, 234
Muscle Shoals projects and, 169, 183–84, 189–90, 238, 269n
see also Senate, U.S.
Connellsville, Pa., 95–96
Conot, Robert, 33
Coolidge, Calvin, 116, 157, 205, 209–10, 247
Ford’s presidential ambitions and, 210, 219, 272n
Muscle Shoals projects and, 219, 224–25, 235, 238
Plymouth Notch trip of, 229–38, 240
press on, 230–38
son’s death and, 230–31
Coolidge, Calvin, Jr., 230–31
Coolidge, Grace, 229–35, 237
Coolidge, John, 231–33, 235
Couzens, James, 44–47, 113
Cox, James M., 156–57
Crowther, Samuel, 194
Cuba, 16, 81
Davis, John W., 234
Dawes, Charles G., 237–38
Dearborn Independent, 114, 140–44, 168, 192–93
antisemitic content of, 143–44, 147, 159, 183, 193, 224, 243–44
Edison and, 121–22, 141–42
finances of, 141–42
shutting down of, 244, 246
Dearborn Massacre, 249
Deep Lake, 25–26, 28, 257n
DeLoach, R. J. H., 89–90, 93, 96–97, 108
Dodge, John and Horace, 113
Eaton, Lady, 153
Edison (Baldwin), 241
Edison, Charles, 18, 140
Everglades trip of, 25, 27–30, 259n
Edison, Madeleine, 17–18
Everglades trip of, 26–29, 248
Edison, Mary, 150
Edison, Mina, 148, 204–8, 245
Bisbee visited by, 7, 9, 208, 252
Everglades trip of, 26–29, 31, 57
Ford’s presidential ambi
tions and, 214
Ford’s relationship with, 33, 151–52
Ford’s wife’s relationship with, 21, 32
Fort Myers trips of, 11, 15–18, 31
Harding’s death and, 204–5
Harding’s trip with, 165, 170, 172–73, 175, 181–82, 184
husband defended by, 184–85
husband’s death and, 248
husband’s illnesses and, 24, 223
husband’s relationship with, 150–51
Milan trip of, 201–2
New Hampshire trip of, 222, 231, 236–37
San Francisco trip of, 37, 40, 42, 47, 49
Swallow Falls trip of, 182–83
Upper Michigan Peninsula trip of, 207–9, 213–15
Wayside Inn trip of, 228
World War I and, 85
Yama Farms trip of, 152–54, 163
Edison, Theodore, 18, 162, 182
Everglades trip of, 25–26, 28, 30
Vagabonds’ Upper Michigan Peninsula trip and, 213–14
Edison, Thomas A.:
Adirondacks trip of, 70, 72–76, 78–81, 126–28, 130–31, 135
antisemitism and, 131–33, 159–60, 223
auto batteries and, 18, 20–21, 93, 160
awards and honors of, 16, 37–43, 47–48, 54–57, 79, 109, 200, 205–6, 246–47, 250–51, 253
Bisbee’s meetings with, 7–11, 252
Burbank’s meeting with, 48–49, 128
Burroughs’s relationship with, 23, 71–72, 74, 130–31, 149, 156, 162
business judgment of, 129–30
comparisons between Burroughs and, 207
comparisons between Ford and, 4, 20–21, 50, 77, 86, 97, 135, 145, 148, 151
Coolidge’s son’s death and, 230–31
death of, 242, 247–50
electric truck project and, 160, 194–95
and end of Vagabonds’ road trips, 239–41, 245–46
Everglades trip of, 23–32, 37, 57, 135, 257n
factory fire of, 32–33
film industry contributions of, 14, 35, 38, 50, 71, 77, 129, 218
finances of, 15–17, 19–20, 32–33, 58, 67, 93, 128–30, 140–41, 151, 187, 242, 260n
Firestone’s relationship with, 75, 99, 130, 160–61, 202, 217–19, 242, 248–50
Ford’s lawsuits and, 118, 223
Ford’s museum and, 246–47
Ford’s newspaper and, 121–22, 141–42
Ford’s presidential ambitions and, 199, 202, 211, 214–15, 223
Ford’s relationship with, 4, 18–21, 31–35, 37, 39–42, 59, 61–63, 66, 68, 80, 82, 89, 92, 97, 100, 105, 118, 121–22, 124, 129, 131, 160, 167, 184, 199, 223, 246–50
Fort Myers trips of, 11–12, 14–17, 20–21, 23–25, 31, 62–63, 241–42
Harding’s death and, 202–5, 214