Overland travel is not new to Americans. The most famous group called themselves the vagabonds. The group started as a 2 family car camping trip to the everglades in 1914. The Ford Family and the Edison family.
Starting 1915 the vagabond group was expanded to include John Burroughs, naturalist Luther Burbank, Harvey Firestone and occasionally, President Harding. The last Vagabond group car camping trip was in 1924 when the participants decided that they were drawing too much attention.
Gearing up was as simple as turning the pages of the 1927 Sears catalogue:
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