This book is the first to tell the stories of several of these women in the detail and context necessary to truly appreciate their deeds. Being the first to accomplish an exploratory feat was difficult enough for men who enjoyed the support of society at large, but for these women the feat was tougher, longer, harder, but history making. It was an especially remarkable period of history for those women whose stories are told in this book young women who held the dream, fortified their courage, endured pain, lost hope, found hope and met their goals. Explorers still made headlines by going where no person had ever gone before.
In a world very different from our paved and pampered world today, large portions of the planet were still unexplored and even the settled places were predominantly rural and undeveloped. By car, plane, and motorcycle they did what few others dared, and accomplished feats worthy of storytelling a century later.
From 1910-1916, women such as Blanche Stuart Scott, Delia Crewe, Effie and Avis Hotchkiss, Adeline and Augusta Van Buren, Rachel Foster Avery and other daring adventurers were not deterred from pursuing and achieving their dreams of traveling across America and exploring the world around them in spite of daunting physical and social roadblocks.
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