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May 26, 2023 · In 1903, Horatio Jackson and Sewall Crocker made the first coast-to-coast road trip in American history (marked in red). It made them famous before they even arrived.
Apr 11, 2023 · In 1903, Horatio Jackson and Sewall Crocker made the first coast-to-coast road trip in American history (marked in red). It made them famous before they even arrived.
Apr 11, 2023 · The coast-to-coast road trip, that American essential, turns 120 this year. In 1903, Horatio Jackson and Sewall Crocker became the first people ever to drive a car from one side of the U.S. all the way to the other.
May 12, 2016 · In this excerpt from his new book Drive!, Lawrence Goldstone recounts one of the first coast-to-coast road trips. In 1903, Packard investor Henry Joy hired test driver E.T. "Tom" Fetch to...
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Sep 28, 2017 · When Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson wagered in May 1903 that he could drive from San Francisco to New York in 90 days, there were only 150 miles of paved road in the entire country. Jackson (at the wheel) enlisted Sewall Crocker as his mechanic and co-driver, and bought a used Winton touring car.
Jun 16, 2023 · Let’s look at the very first coast-to-coast road trip, and perhaps you’ll decide to make the same journey one day! When Was the First Cross-Country Road Trip? In 1903, Horatio Jackson bet $50 that he could travel across America in his car.
A coast-to-coast drive of the kind pioneered by Jackson unquestionably qualifies as a road trip. So does the automobile journey taken by Dutchman Henny Hogenbijl in the summer of 1955, his color film of which you can see above.
