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	Ken Burns . Horatio's Drive \| PBS
		Throughout it all, Jackson's indomitable spirit and sheer enthusiasm was as indispensable as the fuel for his car.
		Using a treasure trove of photographs Jackson took along the way, and relying on the previously unpublished letters he wrote to his wife from the road (read masterfully by Hanks), the film puts the viewer in the front seat of the Vermont and rides across the continent with Jackson, Crocker and Bud.
		Background on the occupants of the car: Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson; Sewall Crocker, his mechanic and co-driver; and Bud, the bulldog Jackson purchased during the trip.
	www.pbs.org /kenburns/films/horatio.html (695 words)

	Horatio Nelson Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Horatio Nelson Jackson ( 1872 - January 14, 1955) was a San Francisco, California physician who became the first person to drive an automobile across the United States.
		Jackson was a 31-year-old auto enthusiast who differed with the then-prevailing wisdom that the automobile was a passing fad and the plaything of rich men.
		Horatio Nelson Jackson eventually settled in Burlington, Vermont with his wife Bertha and Bud the bulldog.
	www.wikisearch.net /en/wikipedia/h/ho/horatio_nelson_jackson.html (953 words)

	Horatio Nelson Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horatio Nelson Jackson ( 1872 - January 14, 1955) was the first person to drive an automobile across the United States.
		Jackson and his wife planned to return to their Burlington, Vermont home in a few days anyway and both had been taking automobile driving lessons while in San Francisco.
		Jackson convinced a young mechanic and chauffeur, Sewall K. Crocker, to serve as his travel companion, mechanic, and backup driver.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horatio_Nelson_Jackson (1098 words)

	Nelson
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	Horatio
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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/horatio.html (282 words)

	Horatio Nelson Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Horatio Nelson Jackson ( 1872 - January 14, 1955) was a physician that had practiced for a few years inthe towns of Brattleboro, Vermont and Burlington, Vermont ; who became the first person to drive an automobile, The Vermont, across the United States.
		Jackson was a 31-year-old auto enthusiast who differed with the then-prevailing wisdom that theautomobile was a passing fad and the plaything of rich men.
		Jackson did manage to find a telegraph office andwired back to San Francisco for replacement tires to be transported to them along the journey.
	www.therfcc.org /horatio-nelson-jackson-293288.html (1017 words)

	CNN.com - 2 men, a dog, and the 1st car road trip - Oct. 3, 2003
		Jackson, already a seasoned traveler -- he was on his way back from Alaska, as a matter of fact -- overhearing someone pooh-poohing the relatively new invention of the automobile.
		Jackson, who was fascinated with the new machines and had already purchased several, took the challenger's $50 bet that he couldn't drive one of these contraptions from San Francisco to New York in three months.
		Jackson got his fuel from general stores (when it was available) and slept where he could, whether at a town inn or under the stars.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/02/horatios.drive/index.html (1088 words)

	Horatio's Drive : America's First Road Trip: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jackson was possessed of a deep thirst for adventure, and his remarkable story chronicles the very beginning of the restless road trips that soon became a way of life in America.
		Jackson was in San Francisco when he decided to attempt the trip- it was really a "spur of the moment" decision, made after a fellow bet him $50 that he couldn't do it.
		Horatio Jackson, accompanied by Sewall Crocker, left San Francisco in 1903 in an attempt to be the first man to ever traverse the U.S. from coast to coast in an automobile (and to win a bet).
	www.usaflightinsurance.com /books-reviewed/037541536X.html (2729 words)

	Paper Frigate: Horatio's Drive—America's First Road Trip
		In late May 1903, Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont eating in a restaurant in San Francisco with his new bride, overheard a statement made at a nearby table, to the effect that automobiles were a fad that would not last because they could not carry a man across the country.
		Jackson, on the other hand, would turn down the offer from the Harry Winton factory to sponsor him (made only when he had reached the Mississippi), rather than lose the independence of making his own way.
		And Horation Nelson Jackson, behind the wheel of the same car he drove across the country that year, was pulled over to receive a speeding ticket—for driving faster than 6 mph.
	paperfrigate.blogspot.com /2005/01/horatios-drive8212americas-first-road.html (556 words)

	Ken Burns adds another tribute to American spirit - PittsburghLIVE.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Horatio Nelson Jackson was a 31-year-old doctor who did not own a car or had even driven one before.
		Jackson detailed every step of the journey with a Kodak camera and letters to his wife Bertha, who was waiting for him on the East coast.
		Jackson was one of the first to be infected by wanderlust, the same feeling that propels families today to drive into unknown territory each summer.
	beta.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_158605.html (683 words)

	Horatio's Drive America's First Road Trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Horatio Nelson Jackson bet a group of men in San Francisco $50 he could drive an automobile coast to coast in three months or less, something which had never been done before.
		Horatio Nelson Jackson and his mechanic, Sewell Crocker, embodied the American ideal that you can accomplish the impossible with pluck, grit, and determination.
		Jackson's letters home to his beloved wife, Bertha, or "Swipes", as he calls her, are read by the peerless Tom Hanks.
	www.hallvideo.com /store/vhs_B0000A02Y2_Horatio's-Drive-America's-First-Road-Trip.html (646 words)

	Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
		Horatio Nelson Jackson, a 31-year-old retired doctor from Vermont who was passing through San Francisco, accepted a wager.
		Jackson removed the back seat to make room for the piles of equipment he purchased for the journey, including a block and tackle with 150 feet of hemp rope, a shotgun, rifle, pistols, ammunition — and a small Kodak camera to record his trip.
		&#x201C;Horatio’s Drive” is narrated by Keith David with Tom Hanks as the voice of Horatio Nelson Jackson.
	www.thinktv.org /program/archive/horatio/horatio.html (629 words)

	Horatio Nelson Jackson: Definition and links.
		Horatio Nelson Jackson made the first succcessful automobile drive across the United States in 1903.
		There were numerous layovers while Jackson waited for replacement parts to arrive by train.
		He made the journey, along with his pet bulldog, in a new Winton.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ho/Horatio-Nelson-Jackson.html (137 words)

	Horatio's Drive
		Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' 2003 account of the first transcontinental (SF to NY) expedition by horseless carriage a century earlier.
		Jackson, a 31 year-old retiree from Vermont, accepted a $50 bet that he couldn't drive from the City to New York in 90 days.
		Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker, a 22 year-old bicycle repairman, left San Francisco at a time when there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire country.
	www.mistersf.com /cinema/cinhoratio03.htm (270 words)

	Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip on PBS 45 & 49 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Horatio and his companions, knowingly or not, seemed to be traveling in the shadow of Lewis and Clark.
		Horatio made his trip in a cherry red, 1903 Winton tour car, already more than a month old and with over 1,000 miles on it.
		Horatio removed the back seat to make room for the piles of equipment he purchased for the journey, including a block and tackle with 150 feet of hemp rope, a shotgun, rifle, pistols, ammunition — and a small Kodak camera to record his trip.
	www.ch4549.org /FEAT1005.HTM (917 words)

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		Horatio Nelson Jackson and his co-driver, Sewall Crocker, aboard the Vermont.
		Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker, his chauffeur, finished the first transcontinental automobile trip at half-past four o'clock yesterday morning.
		We'll also be drawing some pictures of Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker, and Bud the Bulldog as they went on their trip, too.
	www.vcsc.k12.in.us /tcr/horatio/index.htm (578 words)

	American Eagle Latitudes
		Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip is an intimate account of the first cross-country North American road trip, when automobiles were a curiosity and when paved roads were just beginning to appear.
		Jackson was an intrepid explorer; he undertook this trip not knowing what he would find the next day, following old trails, with few roads linking one town to the next.
		Horatio’s Drive is a love story—of America’s love affair with the automobile—as much as it is a classic American adventure, one to remember each time you pack your bags and head for the open road.
	www.eaglelatitudes.com /current/article.html?id=339 (590 words)

	Horatio's Drive America's First Road Trip
		Subtitled "America's First Road Trip," Horatio's Drive captures the remarkable odyssey of Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont who--accompanied by a former professional bicyclist and a bulldog named Bud--helmed the first trip from coast to coast in a car.
		In 1903, after making a $50 bet he could drive to New York City in 90 days, Nelson set off from San Francisco in a used Winton two-seater than he bought for $3000 and proceeded to cross a country where most roads, if they existed at all, were still made of dirt.
		Pulling together newspaper articles, period movies, and Jackson's own photographs and passionate love letters to his wife, famed documentarian Ken Burns crafts a love letter of his own to the automobile and the ways it has shaped American life.
	www.halldvd.com /store/dvd_B0000A02Y3_Horatio's-Drive-America's-First-Road-Trip.html (147 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Horatios Drive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Horatio's Drive is not simply about one man's impulsive bet that he could become the first person to drive across the U.S. in an automobile.
		The story, told mostly through the letters that Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson writes to his wife as he slowly weaves his way across the continent, is about the first wave of the future passing through an American that had remained unchanged for many years.
		Jackson, ever the optimist, writes about how certain he is that he can make it even when faced with a hostile terrain, no road maps and an under powered car prone to breaking down at the worst possible time.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000A02Y3 (917 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / TV / A different road for Ken Burns
		Jackson's car, which was capable of going up to 30 miles per hour, had no windshield, roof, or doors.
		Jackson, who went on the trip with bicycle repairman Sewall Crocker, wore goggles to protect his eyes from the dust.
		Jackson followed railroad tracks for some of his journey but turned away to dirt roads and open land to avoid the deserts of Nevada.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2003/10/06/a_different_road_for_ken_burns (646 words)

	Horatio Nelson Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1903 Horatio Nelson Jackson made the first successful automobile drive across the United States in a new Winton.
		Jackson on 1903 cross-country driveGoing northwards out of Sacramento, the noise of the car covered the fact that the duo's cooking gear was falling off.
		They were also given a 108-mile wrong turn when the directions they were given by a woman proved to be a lie so that she could send them to the spot where her family could see an automobile.
	myautoworld.com /autos/History/history-horatio-drive/history-horatio-drive.html (1577 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| American History \| Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jackson was presently involved in a confrontation with South Carolina over the passage of the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
		The last thing Jackson needed was a confrontation with another state, so he quietly nudged Georgia into obeying the court order and freeing Butler and Worcester.
		As Jackson constantly warned, squatters would continue to invade and occupy the land they wanted; then, if they were attacked, they would turn to the state government for protection that usually ended in violence.
	www.historynet.com /ah/bljackson (1293 words)

	Legacy Recordings - Various - Horatio's Drive - Original Soundtrack Recording (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, the film for PBS, tries to capture what it must have been like for Horatio Nelson Jackson in the first transcontinental automobile trip, a journey that began in May of 1903 on an impulsive $50 bet.
		Jackson was possesed of a deep thirst for adventure and his remarkable journey chronicles the very beginning of America's great romance with the road.
		The music on the Horatio's Drive original soundtrack is a combination of songs from the era as well as recent compositions that conjure images of America's first road trip.
	www.legacyrecordings.com /artists/various/horatiosdriveoriginalsoundtrackrecording_p7948.html (428 words)

	TELEVISION REVIEW; Across America in His Merry Winton - New York Times
		''Horatio's Drive'' is a two-hour account of a merry 1903 cross-country drive by motorcar, the first of its kind, here rendered in voice-over, archival film clips and many, many panned-over still photographs.
		This is a made-for-television story: Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, the 31-year-old driver, took a buddy and a bulldog in drivers' goggles on his drive, as well as a Kodak camera.
		Though no Seabiscuit, Jackson was a reasonably unlikely hero, undertaking his road trip on a bet with little preparation, and completing it only after so many breakdowns that, to the viewer, it becomes impossible to keep count.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6DC133CF935A35753C1A9659C8B63 (838 words)

	Amazon.com: Horatio's Drive - America's First Road Trip: DVD: Tom Hanks,Keith David,Adam Arkin,Tom Bodett,Philip ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Horatio Nelson Jackson bet a group of men in San Francisco $50 he could drive an automobile coast to coast in three months or less, something which had never been done before.
		Jackson's letters home to his beloved wife, Bertha, or "Swipes", as he calls her, are read by the peerless Tom Hanks.
		Horatio was a bit of an aristocrat, and based soley on a fifty dollar bet, he decides to drive across the United States from San Francisco to New York.
	www.amazon.com /Horatios-Drive-Americas-First-Road/dp/B0002JP4XW (1577 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog \| Horatio's Drive by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
		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.
		Jackson’s previously unpublished letters to his wife, brimming with optimism against all odds, describe in vivid detail every detour, every flat tire, every adventure good and bad.
		Jackson was possessed of a deep thirst for adventure, and his remarkable story chronicles the very beginning of the restless road trips that soon became a way of life in America.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/display.pperl?037541536X (367 words)

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