As a result of their travels, Ford, Edison, and Burroughs would, as Wes Davis writes, “carry forward a sharpened image of the nation they had helped to shape and an invigorated sense of the role they might play in its preservation.”
In December 1912, the naturalist John Burroughs received an unexpected letter from Henry Ford. Ford had been reading Burroughs’ essays, and he wanted Burroughs to know how much he admired him. He wondered if Burroughs would like a free new Ford automobile.
Ford’s offer of a free car initially led Burroughs to wonder about his motives, but after discussing the matter with family and friends, Burroughs wrote the automaker, “If it would please Mr. Ford to present me with one of his cars, it would please me to accept the car.” But the closest parallel in American life to the trips taken by Ford, Edison, and Burroughs is actually the 1839 trip described by Henry David Thoreau inIn that excursion Thoreau and his brother slowly made their way through nature by canoe.
The first meeting between Ford and Burroughs took place in 1913 on the 2,000 acres of farmland in Dearborn, Michigan, where Ford had a two-story bungalow. That meeting established the personal basis for future visits of the three men, which would reach their high point in a 1918 trip through the Great Smoky Mountains. “Mr. Ford pleased with me and I with him,” Burroughs wrote in his journal of their first encounter.
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