3. Eve Golden, Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway, Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 2000.
4. Harriet Quimby websites include:
http://www.harrietquimby.org/
http://www.lighterthanair.net/harriet.htm
http://www.onekama.k12.mi.us/quimby/main.htm
5. "Anita King to Drive Across Continent Alone," The Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1915.
7. "Anita King Starts Highway Trip," The Oakland Tribune, September 2, 1915.
8. The Los Angeles Times, op cit.
9. "Movie Actress to Drive Across U.S. Unaccompanied," The San Francisco Chronicle, August 22, 1915
10. "Film Star to Start Record Transcontinental Drive, The Oakland Tribune, August 22, 1915.
11. "Movie Star Breaks Road Mark," The Oakland Tribune, August 29, 1915.
12. "Girl Driver Out for New Record," The San Francisco Examiner, August 29, 1915.
13. "Anita King, movie actress who is trying to break 3000 mile auto record," The San Francisco Call and Post, September 1, 1915.
14. "Anita King Starts Highway Trip," The Oakland Tribune, September 2, 1915.
15. "Movie Star on Way Across U.S.," The San Francisco Chronicle, September 5, 1915.
16. "Mark Lincoln Highway is Autoists' Plea," The San Francisco Chronicle, September 15, 1915.
17. "Anita King Near End of Hard Trip," The Oakland Tribune, September 19, 1915.
17A. "Movie Star Reaches Chicago," Motor Age, September 30, 1915, p. 21.
18. "Movie Star Ends Trip to Atlantic," The San Francisco Chronicle, October 24, 1915.
19. "Coliseum Opens in Seattle on January 8, 1916"
20. "Film Queen, 'Mother' of the 'Movie' Girls, Here; Fights Censor," The San Francisco Call and Post, May 4, 1916.
22. "Thrilling Moment During the Filming of a Big Scene," The San Francisco Chronicle, April 2, 1916.
23. W. Stephen Bush, review of The Race, The Moving Picture World, April 22, 1916.
24. Advertisement, The San Francisco Call and Post, May 6, 1916.
25. "Anita King Will Tell of Auto Trip," The San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 1916.
26. "Anita King on Tour East to Boost the Bonds, The San Francisco Chronicle, October 20, 1918.
27. "Anita King, Once Film Star, Studies Types in Honolulu," The San Francisco Chronicle, August 12, 1926.
28. "Early Day Film Star Anita King McKenna Dies," The Los Angeles Times, June 11, 1963.
30. Curt McConnell, A Reliable Car and a Woman Who Knows It: The First Coast-to-Coast Auto Trips by Women, 1899-1916, Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2000.
Acknowledgements:
A special thank you to Craig Harmon of the Lincoln Highway National Museum and Archives for sharing with me his exhaustive research into Anita King's journey.
Copyright 2003 William M. Drew
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