the State Historical Society of Missouri
Doug Genens is an oral historian at the State Historical Society of Missouri.
Two convoys of army trucks left St. Louis and Kansas City on September 27, 1920. Their mission was to travel…
Doug Genens is an oral historian at the State Historical Society of Missouri.
![A muddy road in Lafayette County, Missouri, circa 1910s. At the dawn of the automobile era, the predicament of drivers in Missouri and elsewhere sparked a nationwide Good Roads Movement. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs, C3888-G0043]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-11/1.-good-roads-movement.jpg?itok=lPo28e6p "A muddy road in Lafayette County, Missouri, circa 1910s. At the dawn of the automobile era, the predicament of drivers in Missouri and elsewhere sparked a nationwide Good Roads Movement. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs, C3888-G0043]")
Two convoys of army trucks left St. Louis and Kansas City on September 27, 1920. Their mission was to travel…