Horatio's Drive America's First Road Trip

Name: Horatio's Drive America's First Road Trip
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ISBN: 9780375415364

ISBN-10: 037541536X

ISBN-13: 9780375415364

Edition: 2003

Authors: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns

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The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most astonishing—automobile trip across the United States. 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 thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor, who impulsively bet fifty dollars that he could drive his 20-horsepower automobile from San Francisco to New York City. Here—in Jackson’s own words and photographs—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. Jackson’s previously unpublished…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/8/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 10.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Ken Burns, founder of Florentine Films, is a director, producer, & writer who has been making documentaries for more than 15 years. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.



Preface: The Way We Enter Our History




A Passing Mechanical Fancy



The Hardest Work I Ever Did



One of the Wonders of the Century



An Enthusiast for Motoring



The Worst of It Is Over



Buffalo Wallows



Watch Me Now



A Signal Triumph


Afterword: Song of the Open Road



Horatio's Itinerary


Acknowledgments


Selected Sources


Illustration Credits


Film Credits