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Sep 30, 2003 · Subtitled "America's First Road Trip," Horatio's Drive captures the remarkable odyssey of Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont who--accompanied by a former professional bicyclist and a bulldog named Bud--helmed the first trip from coast to coast in a car. In 1903, after making a $50 bet he could drive to New York City in 90 days ...
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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. The documentary focuses primarily on Horatio Nelson Jackson and his Winton car, The Vermont; along with his companions Sewall K. Crocker, his pet pit ...
Clip: Season 1 | 1m 46s |. My List. On May 23, 1903 Horatio started out in San Francisco on the first American road trip. Aired: 01/06/12. Rating: NR.
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Oct 6, 2003 · S1 E5: 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." At the time there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire country, all of them ...
Mar 17, 2010 · Posted by Documentary Site on March 17, 2010. A century ago Horatio Nelson Jackson’s famous road trip began much like many road trips do today: on a whim. Unlike today, however, 1903 America offered few paved roads and even fewer cars, and not even reliable ones at that. But those obstacles, and many others, failed to dampen Jackson’s ...
Sep 28, 2004 · Subtitled "America's First Road Trip," Horatio's Drive follows Vermont doctor Horatio Nelson Jackson -- and a professional bicyclist and his pet bulldog, Bud -- as they set off on the first coast-to-coast car trip. After making a bet that he could drive from San Francisco to New York in 90 days (this was 1903, folks), Jackson bought a Winton ...
Sep 23, 2018 · The amazing journey of Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, and the first successful car trip across the United States, has been commemorated in a documentary film by the celebrated Ken Burns, "Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip", which debuts Monday, October 6th, at 9:00 p.m. on PBS. At its most fundamental, the film is convincing evidence that ...
