Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of the first woman to cross America behind the wheel of a car. In 1909, a decade before women would be given the right to vote, Alice Huyler Ramsey proved to the world that a woman had the necessary virtues to drive from New York to San Francisco. A Maxwell Automotive company executive discovered the driving skills of this 21-year-old Vassar graduate and New Jersey homemaker and asked her if she wanted to drive the company's new 30-horsepower, four-cylinder Maxwell across the country to prove that the car could make it and that a woman motorist could do it.
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