HORATIO`S DRIVE Americas First Road Trip. Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns

In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a horseless buggybut that did not stop Horatio Nelson Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor, who impulsively bet fifty dollars that he could drive his 20-horsepower automobile from San Francisco to New York City. Here is a glorious account of that months-long, problem-beset, thrilling-to-the-rattled-bones trip with his mechanic, Sewall Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud. Jacksons previously unpublished letters to his wife, brimming with optimism against all odds, describe in vivid detail every detour, every flat tire, every adventure good and bad. His nearly one hundred photographs show a country still settled mainly in small towns, where life moved no faster than the horse-drawn carriage and where the arrival of Jacksons open-air (roofless and windowless) Winton would cause delirious excitement.

2003. Hardcover with dustcover, 173 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg.