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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

  • Documentary
  • History
  • TV Movie

October 6, 2003 (US)

1h 47m

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 ...

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