Horatio's Drive

Cleveland

The Winton Company offered to give Jackson support for the rest of the trip but he refused.

Cleveland

4m 18s

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    Horatio's Drive

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    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.

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