Avis and Effie Hotchkiss

Avis and Effie Hotchkiss, Salt Lake City, 1915
At Pacific Ocean, 1915

Avis and Effie Hotchkiss, mother and daughter from Brooklyn, New York, were pioneering motorcyclists. In 1915, they completed a 9,000-mile (14,000 km)[1] round trip ride from New York to San Francisco and back on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle-sidecar combination.[2] In so doing they became the first transcontinental female motorcyclists.[2][3][4]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Mullins, p. 18
  2. 1 2 Harley-Davidson Museum
  3. ↑ Miller, p. 186
  4. ↑ American Motorcyclist, 2006

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