Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
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." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.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-fangl... Read more
Starring Tom Hanks, Keith David, Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, John Cullum, Amy Madigan, Eli Wallach
Watch "Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip" from streaming services Amazon, Hoopla released in 2003. It's a documentary and history movie, and has a rating of 8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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