Ken burns: horatio's drive: america's first road trip
(2003)
Nonfiction
eVideo
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : PBS : Made available through hoopla, 2003
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 video file (ca. 120 min.)) : sd., col
ISBN/ISSN
MWT10084518, 10084518
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Get set for an adventure that marked a new era in America! Film-maker Ken Burns presents the hilarious 1903 saga of the first transcontinental automobile trip. On a visionary whim and a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent. His arrival in New York City, after every imaginable breakdown and delay, proved that the "horseless carriage" really did have a future
Rated TVG
Mode of access: World Wide Web