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Rent Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
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Narrator: Ken Burns
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House
Published: Jul 2003
Genre: History - United States - 20th Century
Retail Price: $24.95
Discs: 3
Synopsis
From the PBS program, this book is the story of the first coast-to-coast automobile trip, in 1903, when Dr. Horatio Jackson of New York City bet a friend that he could get to San Francisco in 90 days. Along with his mechanic, Sewall Crocker, and his bulldog, Bud, Jackson proved--despite a lack of maps or paved roads--that it could be done. But it wasn't easy....