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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip. On a visionary whim and a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent. His arrival in New York City, after every imaginable breakdown and delay, proved that the "horseless carriage" really did have a future. IMDb 8.0 1 h 46 min 2003. ALL.
Jul 1, 2003 · Jackson was possessed of a deep thirst for adventure, and his remarkable story chronicles the very beginning of the restless road trips that soon became a way of life in America. Horatio’s Drive is the first chapter in our nation’s great romance with the road. With 146 illustrations and 1 map From the Hardcover edition.
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Explore LearningMedia Resources by Subject. In this essay, we learn about the drive Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson made in 1903 in his horseless carriage. He would be the first person to cross the United States in an automobile at a time when there were only 150 paved roads in the entire country.
Horatio Nelson Jackson believed differently. He bet a man fifty dollars that he could drive an automobile across the country. Nelson paid a man to accompany him on a trip that attempted to go from California into Oregon and the Rocky Mountain states, then across the Midwestern U.S.A. and finally to New York City.
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
Horatio's Drive is the first chapter in our nation's great romance with the road. Read more ©2003 The American Lives II Film Project, LLC (P)2003 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Randhom House Inc.
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The remarkable story of the first person to cross the United States by car. More. In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in ...
