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Horatio's drive [digital videodisc] : America's first road trip / a Florentine Films production, produced in association with WETA Washington, D.C., the American Lifes II Film Project, Inc. ; a film by Ken Burns.

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[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Distribution, [2010]

Jackson, Horatio Nelson, 1872-1955 -- Travel -- United States.

Automobile travel.

United States -- Description and travel.

1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to become the first person to drive an automobile across the continent--a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific--Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horeseless carriage," in less than 3 months.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

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