Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Ken Burns
• Cast(s): Tom Hanks, Keith David, Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, John Cullum See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 40min
• Award(s): Christopher 2004 (Won) Awards List
• Similar To: The Plastic Detox, Queen of Chess
• Story:
  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 was possessed of a deep thirst for adventure, and his remarkable story chronicles the very beginning of the restless road trips that soon became a way of life in America. Horatio’s Drive is the first chapter in our nation’s great romance with the road.
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