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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is a 2003 documentary film directed by Ken Burns and written by Dayton Duncan. Its subject is the first cross-country automobile journey in the United States, which occurred during the summer of 1903.
Ken Burns and Florentine Films put viewers in the front seat of Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson's historic — and hilarious — journey to be first person to cross the United States by car. Now streaming.
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.”
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip: Directed by Ken Burns. With Keith David, Tom Hanks, Adam Arkin, Tom Bodett. The saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, the first man to cross the United States by automobile--in 1903!
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- Documentary, Adventure, History
- Ken Burns
- 2003-10-06
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...
It was the little known story of the first cross-country automobile trip, accomplished with exquisite historical symmetry, he regaled me, exactly one hundred years after Meriwether Lewis got...
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Oct 6, 2003 · 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."
