Ken Burns: American Lives
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
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S1 • E9 Oct 6, 20037.4
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."
