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Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip
Amazon. comIn May 1903, spurred by a friendly argument and a $50 wager, retired New England doctor Horatio Nelson Jackson headed east from San Francisco on America’s first transcontinental automobile journey/race. That mother of all road trips is the subject of this Ken Burns PBS documentary, and its soundtrack evokes both the era and scope of Jackson’s journey with the sympathetic grace we’ve come to expect from the filmmaker. The music here ranges from pre-1920 recordings by Th. . . More >>