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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 of old guide books,146 illustrations, and a map.

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