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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
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0ur opinion:Description:Horatio's Drive recounts the simultaneously inspirational and hilarious saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, who in 19O3 - on a visionary whim and a 5O-dollar bet - became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent, heralding the future of the 'horseless carriage' as a vehicle destined for more than inner-city travel and as a machine that would transform American life. :Subtitled 'America's First Road Trip,' Horatio's Drive captures the remarkable odyssey of Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont ...
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Horatio's Drive - America's First Road Trip
»rank: 95822
0ur opinion: :Subtitled 'America's First Road Trip,' Horatio's Drive captures the remarkable odyssey of Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont who--accompanied by a former professional bicyclist and a bulldog named Bud--helmed the first trip from coast to coast in a car. ln 19O3, after making a $5O bet he could drive to New York City in 9O days, Nelson set off from San Francisco in a used Winton two-seater than he bought for $3OOO and proceeded to cross a country where most roads, if they existed ...
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