Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip

Year: 2003

Runtime: 107 mins

Language: English

Director: Ken Burns

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In the spring of 1903, on a fifty‑dollar wager, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson left San Francisco in a 20‑horsepower Winton touring car, determined to become the first person to drive across the United States in the fledgling “horseless carriage.” Skeptics doubted the automobile’s future, but Jackson’s daring road trip proved them wrong.

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