Horatio's drive
Subtitle: America's first road trip
By: by Dayton Duncan, based on a documentary film directed by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan, with a preface by Ken Burns ; picture research by Suasnna Steisel, Jennifer Stanelle, and Pam Tubridy Baucom.
Contributors: Burns, Ken, 1953-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Jackson, Horatio Nelson, b. 1862 -- Travel -- United States.; Duncan, Dayton -- Travel -- United States.; Automobile travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Overland journeys to the Pacific.; United States -- Description and travel.
Other titles: Horatio's drive (Television program)
Description: Chronicles the nation's first road trip by Horatio Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor who drove his car from San Francisco to New York on mainly unpaved roads in 1903.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-169).
Companion volume to the PBS documentary of the same title.