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Horatio's drive [America's first road trip]

Although the production and sale of automobiles did not fully take off in America until about 1914, Horatio Nelson Jackson, a 31-year-old doctor from Vermont, made a bet in 1903, when just 150 miles of paved roads even existed in the U.S., that he could take his car from California to New York. Here is the story of the unprecedented journey.

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  • "In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a horseless buggy - but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a 31-year-old Vermont doctor, who impulsively bet $50 that he could drive his 20-horsepower automobile from San Francisco to New York City. Here - in Jackson's own words - is a glorious account of that months-long, problem-beset, thrilling-to-the-rattled-bones trip with his mechanic, Sewall Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud."
  • "Although the production and sale of automobiles did not fully take off in America until about 1914, Horatio Nelson Jackson, a 31-year-old doctor from Vermont, made a bet in 1903, when just 150 miles of paved roads even existed in the U.S., that he could take his car from California to New York. Here is the story of the unprecedented journey."@en
  • "In 1903 America, there were only 150 miles of paved roads, and the landscape was a sparse network of small towns -- a delicious enticement for 31-year-old Vermont doctor Horatio Jackson and his two companions, mechanic Sewall Crocker and Bud the dog. Taking a $50 bet, Jackson and company piled into his open-air Winton car and drove from San Francisco to New York City. This lively account of adventures and misadventures -- the four-hour detour and the flat tire changed in sub-zero weather -- captures Jackson's unquenchable good humor and his love of the open road. Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan do their usual masterful job of weaving excerpts from Jackson's letters to his wife and his financial backer into a literate but zesty story that is quintessentially American."@en
  • "In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a horseless buggy, but that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a 31-year-old Vermont doctor, who impulsively bet $50 that he could drive his 20-horsepower automobile from San Francisco to New York City. Here, in Jackson's own words, is a glorious account of that months-long, problem-beset, thrilling-to-the-rattled-bones trip with his mechanic, Sewall Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud."@en
  • "Chronicles the nation's first road trip by Horatio Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor who drove his car from San Francisco to New York on mainly unpaved roads in 1903."@en

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  • "Horatio's Drive"
  • "Horatio's drive [America's first road trip]"@en
  • "Horatio's drive"
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  • "Horatio's drive : America's first road trip"
  • "Horatio's drive America's first road trip"
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