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 ...

and the car is now on display at the Smithsonian's Museum of American History. The epic road trip was also chronicled in a ...

documentary filmmaker Ken Burns directed the film Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip for PBS in 2003. Much of what you read here comes from PBS' fantastic website about the drive ...

Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan are the producers of "Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip," which will be broadcast on PBS stations in October; their companion book of the same name will be ...

Horatio Nelson Jackson became the first person to drive across the continent ... IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF AMERICA'S FIRST ROAD TRIP-- A TRIP THAT WOULD COLLECT A THOUSAND IMPRESSIONS OF A COUNTRY ...

The last image to appear in Ken Burns’ two-hour documentary, Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip is that of a goofy bulldog wearing road-racer goggles. The last sound viewers hear as ...

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 ...

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