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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
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...
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip DVD + BOOK List Price: $49.93 Our Price: $44.93 Buy More, Save More! Save 15% on orders over $75 or Save 20% on orders over $100. Details > Item No.: HDRA953 DVD + Hardcover Book Get set for an adventure that marked a new era in America! Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns presents the hilarious 1903 saga of the first transcontinental automobile trip. On a visionary whim and a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson became the first person to drive...
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This Ken Burns documentary is a vivid celebration of pioneering "automobilist" Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson. In 1903, Jackson accepted a 50-dollar bet to drive from San Francisco to New York City in his 20-horsepower Winton touring car, the Vermont. With only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire country, virtually no worthwhile terrain maps and absolutely no filling stations, Nelson and his co-driver, Sewall K. Crocker, literally had their work cut out for them. Accompanied by their pet bulldog,...
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Format: DVD, Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip - Dvd - Tom Hanks,keith David,ken Burns - Obsessive Quests
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Duncan, Dayton. Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip. Knopf. Hardcover. 7/8/2003. 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...
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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...
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip Book Our Price: $24.95 Item No.: HDRA950 Hardcover Book In 1903, on a visionary whim and a $50 bet, thirty-one year old Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent. His arrival in New York City, after every imaginable breakdown and delay, proved that the "horseless carriage" really did have a future. The companion book to the PBS program, by authors Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, includes reproductions...
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Horatio's Drive recounts the simultaneously inspirational and hilarious saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, who in 1903 - on a visionary whim and a 50-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.
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (Audio Cassette)
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Description Ken Burns presents Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, a documentary about Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson's historic 1903 drive across the U.S. Starting off in San Francisco, Jackson drove his two-cylinder Winton touring car accompanied by his mechanic companion Sewall K. Crocker and his dog Bud. After two months of traveling, he arrived at his destination of New York City. Tom Hanks provides the voice of Horatio by reading personal letters written from the road. Horatio's Drive was...
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33. He'd Have To Get Under-Get Out And Get Under - BobbY Horton (vocal version)
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Hed Have To Get Under - Get Out And Get Under - Bobby Horton. Horatio Nelson Jackson (Setting Out) - Tom Hanks. Back N Forth In Pahrump Nevada - John McEuen. Train On The Island - Todd Phillips. Kansas City Kitty - Fiddlin Johnny. Livery Stable Blues - The Original Dixie Land Jazz Band. Lagrima - Bobby Horton. Cripple Creek - Bobby Horton. Mississippi Rag - Jacqueline Schwab. Mountain Medley - Neal Hellman. Horatio Nelson Jackson (Frightening Horses) - Tom Hanks. Wades Dixieliner Special...
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip CD Our Price: $18.98 Item No.: HDRA951 Single CD On a visionary whim and a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent. His arrival in New York City, after every imaginable breakdown and delay, proved that the "horseless carriage" really did have a future. The companion soundtrack to the program features reinterpretations of popular songs of the day, traditional pieces and brief interludes...
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