Horatio's drive America's first road trip
CD Audiobook |
Random House Audio,
New York :
p2003.
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"In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a 'horseless buggy' -- but 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 -- in Jackson's own words and photographs -- 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. Jackson's previously unpublished letters to his wife, brimming with optimism against all odds, describe in vivid detail every detour, every flat tire, every adventure good and bad. And 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 Jackson's open-air (roofless and windowless) Winton would cause delirious excitement. Jackson was possessed of a deep thirst for adventure, and his remarkable story chronicles the very beginning of the restless road trips that soon became a way of life in America."
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- ISBN: 0736695397
- Physical Description: 3 sound disc (3 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.sound discsound recording
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, p2003.
- General Note: UnabridgedCompanion volume to the PBS documentary of the same title.
- Formatted Contents Note: He'd have to get under, get out and get under / Bobby Horton -- Horatio Nelson Jackson (setting out) / Tom Hanks -- Back 'n forth in Pahrump, Nevada / John McEuen -- Train on the island / Todd Phillips -- Kansas City kitty / Fiddlin' Johnny -- Livery stable blues / The Original Dixieland Jazz Band -- Lagrima ; Cripple Creek / Bobby Horton -- Mississippi rag / Jacqueline Schwab -- Mountain medley / Neal Hellman -- Horatio Nelson Jackson (frightening horses) / Tom Hanks -- Wade's dixieliner special railroad blues #9 / Tony Ellis -- Bury me not on the lone prairie / Bobby Horton -- He'd have to get under, get out and get under / Jackie Schwab -- Carolina traveler / John McEuen & Earl Scruggs -- Gasoline Gus and his Jitney bus ; Steppin' out / Bobby Horton -- Storm music / Jacqueline Schwab -- Blood strained banders ; Rovin' gambler / Bobby Horton -- Idahna chieftain (first car in Soda Springs) / Tom Bodett -- River of no return / Fiddlin' Johnny -- Shenandoah / Bobby Horton -- Straw dolls / Tony Ellis -- Horatio Nelson Jackson (just watch me now) / Tom Hanks -- Carousel / Bobby Horton -- Tiger rag / The Original Dixieland Jazz Band -- Bill Bailey won't you please come home / Bobby Horton -- New York herald (arrival in NYC) / George Plimpton -- Yogi's lament / John Colby -- Cecile / Jacqueline Schwab -- Newspaper (fined for speeding) / Murphy Guyer -- He'd have to get under, get out and get under (vocal version) / Bobby Horton.
- Participant or Performer Note: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, Tom Hanks, Philop bosco, Kevin Conway, Jonathan Davis, George Plimpton.