Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Release Date: 2003-10-06

Runtime: 107

Languages: English

Rating: 7.3

Votes: 7

Genres: Documentary

Director: Ken Burns

Description: 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 Unit...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.Read More

Production Companies:

Florentine Films

american lives ii film project