Into The Wild: Edison, Ford & Friends

In the early 1900's, a group of famous friends--prolific inventor Thomas Edison, pioneering auto-maker Henry Ford, best-selling nature writer John Burroughs, and later, tire manufacturer Harvey Firestone--traveled to the remote reaches of Florida's Everglades in search of a rustic camping adventure far from the pressures of work and the press. Excerpts are featured from the journals and letters of Burroughs and Firestone as well as interviews with historians and biographers. Combined with historic family photographs, vintage press footage and period music, this film offers insight into the famous friends and a rare glimpse of the men behind their public personas.

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