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Horatio’s Drive – America’s First Road Trip
Amazon. comSubtitled “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 r. . . More >>