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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.
Oct 6, 2003 · A documentary film by Ken Burns about Horatio Nelson Jackson, the first person to drive across the U.S. in 1903. Learn about his adventure, challenges, and legacy from the cast, crew, reviews, and awards.
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- Documentary, Adventure, History
- Ken Burns
- 2003-10-06
Oct 16, 2003 · From PBS - 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...
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.”.
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is a one-episode, two-hour film, for which Burns teamed up again with writer/producer Dayton Duncan. Tom Hanks is the...
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Oct 6, 2003 · 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."