Bud’s Cross-Country Dash
About this episode
In 1903 the first car across America carried a dog in goggles. In San Francisco in 1903, Vermont doctor Horatio Nelson Jackson bet that a car could cross America.
Research sources for this film
AI-assisted reconstruction from documented history. AI-assisted reconstruction based on documented history. Verify details against primary sources. Depictions of historical figures are illustrative reconstructions for documentary storytelling — not authentic photographs or recordings of those persons.