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." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

107 minutes

Year:

2003

Director:

Ken Burns

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Company:

Florentine Films,

american lives ii film project

Cast:

Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)

Narrator (voice)

Other Voices (voice)

Other Voices (voice)

Other Voices (voice)

Crew:

Director

Writer