Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip by Dayton Duncan Paperback Book

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Author: Dayton Duncan

Narrator: Ken Burns

Format: Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Random House

Published: Jul 2003

Genre: History - United States - 20th Century

Retail Price: $24.95

Discs: 3

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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....

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