Ken Burns: American Lives

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (1x9)

Air date: Oct 06, 2003

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."