In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.

• DirectorKen Burns
• Release6 October 2003
• Genre
  Documentary / History
• Duration1h 47m
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  7.3
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• Productions

  Florentine Films, american lives ii film project