Alice Ramsey's 1909 transcontinental drive

Chuck BryantCo-host of Stuff You Should Know

• Bryant noted that six years later Alice Ramsey and three friends became the first women to make the crossing, taking 59 days with Maxwell-Briscoe sponsorship.

  “a woman named Alice Ramsey and three of her friends became the first woman and women to accomplish this same thing”

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