Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
- Overview
- Cast
- Crew
- Recommendations
Status
Released
Release Date
Oct 6, 2003
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Documentary
User Score
73%
Original Title
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Production Companies
Florentine Films, american lives ii film project
Director
Ken Burns
Description
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.
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