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Posted by Alvin n Ms. on January 03, 2004 at 22:07:01 from (68.32.242.107):
Tuesday, June 2, 1903
Horatio Nelson Jackson
News about the impending arrival of the first automobile ever to be seen in Lake County had reached Lakeview, Oregon, and citizens lined both sides of main street - fully expecting the Winton to blaze through at 90 miles per hour.
It must have been a let-down when Jackson and Crocker chugged up to the Hotel Lakeview at something only slightly faster than a walk. What little gasoline was available carried an e
They encountered homesteaders who were so terrified by the automobile that they released their horses and hid underneath their wagon. Some who encountered the Winton thought it might be a railroad engine that had somehow gotten off the tracks but many, like the homesteaders, had no idea of what they were encountering.
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