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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.
Horatio Nelson Jackson (March 25, 1872 – January 14, 1955) was an American physician, Army medical officer, and automobile pioneer. In 1903, he and driving partner Sewall K. Crocker became the first people to drive an automobile across the United States, a road trip from San Francisco to New York City , with additional miles travelled to his ...
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
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.
From PBS - 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 c...
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is a one-episode, two-hour film, for which Burns teamed up again with writer/producer Dayton Duncan. Tom Hanks is the voice of Horatio...
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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.”
