23568. Duncan, Dayton and Ken Burns. HORATIO’S DRIVE – America’s First Road Trip. New York. 2003
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23568. Duncan, Dayton and Ken Burns. HORATIO’S DRIVE – America’s First Road Trip. New York. 2003
- Duncan, Dayton and Ken Burns. HORATIO’S DRIVE – America’s First Road Trip. New York. 2003. 173 p. DJ. A most interesting account about the dawn of a new form of transportation in the United States, one that would forever change way we travel. In 1903, Dr. Horatio Jackson, took up a bet that said that he would not be able to drive one of those newfangled automobiles to New York City in less than three months. But, Horatio Jackson was a man of limitless energy, so in four days he got himself a Winton touring car, supplies and a mechanic / assistant-driver, and he was off to face bad road, no roads, no maps, sharp rocks, deep rivers, rapacious store owners and bad directions to eventually win the bet! 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 beautiful accompanied by a host of original photographs that he took along the way. 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. As he passes through one small town after another, he and his mechanic become instant celebrities. As one newspaper account of the time read, it would have been no less of a story had a spaceship touched down in the middle of town. A simply delightful account of this little known adventure. (M). $29.95.