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<span><span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 130%">I can remember the 1916 Pershing expedition being portrayed on the "Young Indiana Jones" mini-series.
No tractors were shown. Maybe they towed the gasoline trailers.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 130%">I visited the State of Texas Big Bend Park in 1995 as well as Big Bend National Park. The Texas site
had a display documenting the incursion of the forces of Francisco Villa during the Mexican Revolution period. The Villistas were attacking non-Hispanic owned ranches and the US Army was trying to prevent it. Cuaranderos used mirrors to signal the Villistas
as to the whereabout of the US Cavalry, An enterprising Army officer bought a personally owned airplane kit and had it shipped to the Big Bend area. He could fly over the area, including Mexican air space, and keep track of the Villista's movements. He would
drop notes in small bags weighted down with pebbles to the troops below.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 130%">The display was gone when I returned a year later. I had no digital camera then. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 130%">Villa did help get the US Army ready for WW1 aviation. His incursions resulted in the Pershing expedition
which appear to have gotten the US Army somewhat familiar with tractors.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; line-height: 130%"><snip> The U.S. Army was slow to adopt crawler tractors and motorized trucks, even though Brigadier
General John J. Pershing, who led the 1916 Mexican punitive expedition, said later, “The expedition ... would have been impossible without the tractor and motor truck.”</span><snip></span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> AT <at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com> on behalf of Stephen Offiler <soffiler@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 1, 2020 7:20 AM<br>
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<div dir="ltr">You might want to check out:
<div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Road-Story-Transcontinental-Journey/dp/080506883X">https://www.amazon.com/American-Road-Story-Transcontinental-Journey/dp/080506883X</a><br>
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<div>See also:</div>
<div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Highway">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Highway</a><br>
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<div class="x_gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 2:28 PM James Peck <<a href="mailto:jamesgpeck@hotmail.com">jamesgpeck@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<span><a id="x_gmail-m_-8446835873180187239LPlnk523932" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/07/driving-cross-country-was-crazy-idea-an-army-convoy-set-out-show-it-could-be-done/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/07/driving-cross-country-was-crazy-idea-an-army-convoy-set-out-show-it-could-be-done/</a><br>
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<a id="x_gmail-m_-8446835873180187239LPUrlAnchor144792" style="text-decoration:none" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/07/driving-cross-country-was-crazy-idea-an-army-convoy-set-out-show-it-could-be-done/" target="_blank">In 1919, Army convoy
drove cross-country from Washington to San Francisco - The Washington Post</a></div>
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In 1919, driving cross-country was a crazy idea. An Army convoy set out to show it could be done. Dwight Eisenhower was along for the ride from Washington to San Francisco.</div>
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