Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

2003 7.3 (7 votes) 1h 47m

Genres

Documentary History TV Movie

Production Companies

Florentine Films
american lives ii film project

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Overview

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.