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Man: AFOOT AND LIGHT-HEARTED,
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I TAKE TO THE OPEN ROAD,
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HEALTHY, FREE,
THE WORLD BEFORE ME,
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THE LONG BROWN PATH BEFORE ME,
LEADING WHEREVER I CHOOSE.
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HENCEFORTH I ASK NOT
GOOD-FORTUNE--
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I MYSELF AM GOOD FORTUNE;
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HENCEFORTH I WHIMPER NO MORE,
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POSTPONE NO MORE,
NEED NOTHING,
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STRONG AND CONTENT,
I TRAVEL THE OPEN ROAD.
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WALT WHITMAN.
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Narrator: ON THE EVENING
OF MAY 19, 1903,
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IN THE OAK-PANELED GAME ROOM
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OF THE EXCLUSIVE UNIVERSITY CLUB
IN SAN FRANCISCO,
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A GROUP OF WELL-TO-DO MEN
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WERE SHARING DRINKS
AND CONVERSATION.
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THE TALK CENTERED ON
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PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S
POLITICAL FORTUNES
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AND THE CHANCES THAT
THE BOSTON PILGRIMS
MIGHT TAKE THE PENNANT
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IN THE BRAND-NEW
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
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THEN THE DISCUSSION
TURNED TO ANOTHER TOPIC:
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THE FUTURE OF A NEW MACHINE
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THAT ONLY RECENTLY
HAD BEEN SHOWING UP
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ON THE STREETS
OF MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES:
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THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE.
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A DEBATE BROKE OUT,
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AND ONE MAN,
A STRANGER TO THE CLUB,
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SOON FOUND HIMSELF
COMPLETELY OUTNUMBERED.
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Man: THE MAJORITY OPINION
WAS THAT,
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SAVE FOR SHORT DISTANCES,
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THE AUTOMOBILE WAS
AN UNRELIABLE NOVELTY,
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A PASSING MECHANICAL FANCY
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WHICH THINKING MEN
COULD DO NO OTHER THAN DISCARD.
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THE HORSE, THEY SAID,
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CONTINUED TO DEMONSTRATE
HIS PROPER PLACE
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AS THE DEPENDABLE SERVANT
OF MANKIND FOR TRAVEL.
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HORATIO NELSON JACKSON.
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Narrator: HORATIO NELSON JACKSON
WAS A 31-YEAR-OLD DOCTOR
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FROM BURLINGTON, VERMONT.
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3 YEARS EARLIER,
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AFTER A MILD CASE
OF TUBERCULOSIS,
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JACKSON HAD GIVEN UP
HIS MEDICAL PRACTICE.
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BUT HE WAS STILL ENERGETIC,
OPTIMISTIC,
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AND BRIMMING WITH NEW IDEAS.
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THAT EVENING, JACKSON ARGUED
THAT THE AUTOMOBILE WAS MORE
THAN A RICH MAN'S TOY
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SUITABLE ONLY FOR SHORT DRIVES
ON CITY BOULEVARDS,
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AND HE DISAGREED WHEN
MOST OF THE OTHER MEN DECLARED
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THAT ONE WOULD NEVER BE DRIVEN
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
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Woman: AND HE HEARD SOME
PEOPLE AT THE NEXT TABLE
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TALKING ABOUT
THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE
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AND HOW IT WAS
NOT GONNA LAST--
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IT WASN'T LIKE THE HORSE--
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AND HE COULDN'T STAND IT.
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AND HE, I GUESS,
GOT UP FROM THE TABLE,
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WENT OVER, AND STARTED
TALKING TO THEM ABOUT IT,
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AND EVENTUALLY,
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WITHIN A FEW
SHORT MINUTES,
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HE TOOK OUT HIS WALLET,
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PUT 50 BUCKS ON
THE TABLE AND SAID,
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"I BET I CAN DRIVE
ACROSS THE COUNTRY."
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THERE WAS NO TURNING
BACK AFTER THAT.
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Narrator:
UNDER THE TERMS OF THE BET,
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JACKSON WOULD WIN THE $50
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IF HE MADE IT ALL THE WAY
TO NEW YORK CITY--
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SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE
HAD EVER DONE BEFORE--
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IN LESS THAN 3 MONTHS.
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ONLY 4 DAYS LATER,
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HORATIO NELSON JACKSON
WOULD SET OFF FROM SAN FRANCISCO
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ON THE GREATEST ADVENTURE
OF HIS LIFE--
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AN ADVENTURE THAT WOULD
MARK THE BEGINNING OF
A NEW ERA IN AMERICA
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AND THE END OF ANOTHER.
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IN 1803,
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EXACTLY 100 YEARS
BEFORE HORATIO NELSON JACKSON
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WOULD DRIVE
OUT OF SAN FRANCISCO,
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MERIWETHER LEWIS
HAD LEFT WASHINGTON, D.C.,
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LOOKING TO BECOME
THE FIRST AMERICAN
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TO CROSS THE CONTINENT.
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TRAVELING BY KEELBOAT
AND CANOE,
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HORSEBACK AND ON FOOT,
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IT TOOK LEWIS AND HIS PARTNER
WILLIAM CLARK NEARLY 2 1/2 YEARS
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TO MAKE IT FROM THE ATLANTIC
TO THE PACIFIC.
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AMERICANS WOULD SPEND THE REST
OF THE 19th CENTURY
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TRYING TO FIND BETTER
AND FASTER WAYS
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TO CONQUER THE NATION'S VAST
BUT ALLURING DISTANCES.
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IN THE 1840s, HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF PIONEERS
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TOOK WAGON TRAINS
TO OREGON AND CALIFORNIA,
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SEARCHING FOR GOLD,
FOR LAND,
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OR A CHANCE TO START OVER.
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AT THE PACE OF A SLOW WALK,
THE TRIP TOOK 6 MONTHS.
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LATER TRAVELERS RODE
THE OVERLAND STAGECOACH,
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WHICH CUT THE TIME IN HALF.
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BUT THE JOURNEY
WAS SO BUMPY AND DUSTY,
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THE WRITER MARK TWAIN SAID,
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THAT HE NEEDED
AN UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY
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TO FIND THE PROPER WORDS
TO DESCRIBE HIS JOY
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WHEN THE ORDEAL
WAS FINALLY OVER.
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BY 1869,
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THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL
RAILROAD WAS COMPLETED,
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AND AMERICANS COULD NOW CROSS
THEIR NATION IN WEEKS
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INSTEAD OF MONTHS OR YEARS,
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PROVIDED THEY WERE CONTENT
TO CONFINE THEMSELVES
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TO A RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
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BUT LATE IN THE 19th CENTURY,
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A NEW MEANS OF TRAVEL
APPEARED FIRST IN EUROPE
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AND THEN
IN THE UNITED STATES
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WHICH PROMISED NOT JUST SPEED,
BUT GREATER FREEDOM.
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Man: SPRINGFIELD EVENING UNION:
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A NEW MOTOR CARRIAGE
IS BEING MADE IN THIS CITY.
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IF THE PRELIMINARY RESULTS
PROVE SUCCESSFUL, AS EXPECTED,
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IT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE
THE MODE OF TRAVEL
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AND DO AWAY WITH THE HORSE.
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Narrator: IN 1893,
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TWO BICYCLE MECHANICS
IN SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS--
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CHARLES AND FRANK DURYEA--
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STARTED MAKING
GASOLINE-POWERED MACHINES
THEY CALLED MOTORWAGONS
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AND SOLD THEIR FIRST ONE
IN 1896.
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OTHER ENTREPRENEURS
QUICKLY FOLLOWED SUIT.
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IN LANSING, MICHIGAN,
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RANSOM OLDS MADE
A MOTOR CARRIAGE
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THAT WAS BETTER THAN
A HORSE, HE SAID,
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"BECAUSE IT NEVER KICKS
OR BITES,
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"NEVER TIRES ON LONG RUNS,
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"NEVER SWEATS
IN HOT WEATHER,
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AND EATS ONLY
WHILE ON THE ROAD."
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IN DETROIT, A YOUNG MACHINIST
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AND SELF-TAUGHT ENGINEER
NAMED HENRY FORD
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PRODUCED A QUADRACYCLE--
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A MACHINE THAT WEIGHED
ONLY 500 POUNDS
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AND COULD REACH
THE UNHEARD-OF SPEED
OF 20 MILES AN HOUR.
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AT FIRST,
ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLES
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WERE MORE COMMON
THAN THE SO-CALLED PETROL CARS
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THAT USED GASOLINE,
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ALTHOUGH THEIR RANGE
WAS SEVERELY LIMITED
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BECAUSE THEIR BATTERIES ALWAYS
SEEMED TO NEED RECHARGING.
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AND IN MASSACHUSETTS,
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THE STANLEY BROTHERS
BEGAN PRODUCING STEAMERS,
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WHOSE ONLY DRAWBACK
WAS THAT THEIR BOILERS
REQUIRED 20 MINUTES
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IN ORDER TO HEAT UP ENOUGH WATER
TO GET THINGS MOVING.
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Man: THE EARLY DAYS
OF THE AUTOMOBILE WAS
SORT OF THIS FREE-FOR-ALL.
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PEOPLE WERE MAKING THEM
IN THEIR GARAGES.
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IT'S SORT OF LIKE--
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YOU THINK OF THE START OF
THE COMPUTER AGE, YOU KNOW?
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YOUNG MECHANICS--
MOSTLY BICYCLE MECHANICS--
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IN THEIR GARAGES
TRYING TO FIGURE A WAY
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TO MAKE ALL THESE THINGS WORK
MECHANICALLY.
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Narrator:
ON SOME VEHICLES,
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THE STEERING WHEEL
WAS ON THE LEFT;
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ON OTHERS, THE RIGHT.
08:09.700 --> 08:12.933 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
MANY HAD NO STEERING WHEEL
AT ALL,
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USING A TILLER OR LEVERS
08:14.666 --> 08:16.700 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
TO GUIDE THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE
DOWN THE STREET.
08:16.700 --> 08:20.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SOME HAD METAL POLES
MOUNTED UNDERNEATH
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THAT COULD BE DROPPED
LIKE ANCHORS,
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NAILING THE CAR TO THE ROAD
IF IT STARTED TO SLIDE SIDEWAYS
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OR ROLL BACKWARDS DOWN A HILL.
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DRIVERS OF THESE NEW MACHINES
WENT BY VARIOUS NAMES:
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MOTORISTS, CHAUFFEURS,
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AND AS THE EUROPEAN TERM
"AUTOMOBILE" SLOWLY CAUGHT ON,
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AUTOMOBILISTS.
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Duncan: SOMEBODY ONCE SAID
THAT THE AUTOMOBILE IS
A MOBILE STATUS SYMBOL,
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AND A MOBILE STATUS SYMBOL
IS AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN GET TO
DEFINING THE AMERICAN DREAM.
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IT REPRESENTED ADVENTURE.
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IT REPRESENTED ROMANCE
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
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THERE ARE ALL THESE EARLY SONGS
THAT GREW UP,
09:03.400 --> 09:07.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND ALMOST ALL OF THEM HAVE
SOMETHING TO DO WITH ROMANCE.
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"COME AWAY WITH ME, LUCILLE,
IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE."
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IT'S ALL ABOUT GETTING THE GIRL
IF YOU GOT THE CAR.
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ONE OF MY FAVORITES IS
HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER--
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GET OUT AND GET UNDER
(TO FIX UP HIS AUTOMOBILE).
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♪ HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER ♪
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♪ GET OUT AND GET UNDER ♪
09:25.433 --> 09:28.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ TO FIX HIS LITTLE MACHINE... ♪
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EVERY TIME HE'S TRYING TO
MAKE ROMANCE TO HIS GIRL
AS HE'S DRIVING,
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THE CAR WOULD BREAK DOWN,
09:34.633 --> 09:38.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND HE'D HAVE TO GET DOWN
UNDERNEATH THE AUTOMOBILE.
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IT'S AS IF,
TWO GENERATIONS LATER,
09:43.900 --> 09:45.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
FINALLY GUYS FIGURED OUT
09:45.200 --> 09:47.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THAT IT WAS THE BREAKING DOWN
OF THE AUTOMOBILE
09:47.133 --> 09:49.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THAT PRESENTED THE--YOU KNOW,
THE CHANCE FOR ROMANCE.
09:49.366 --> 09:52.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ GET OUT AND GET UNDER ♪
09:52.400 --> 09:56.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ AND FIX UP HIS AUTOMOBILE ♪
09:56.233 --> 09:59.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ JOHNNY O'CONNOR
BOUGHT AN AUTOMOBILE ♪
09:59.233 --> 10:02.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ HE TOOK HIS SWEETHEART
FOR A RIDE ONE SUNDAY ♪
10:02.833 --> 10:05.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ JOHNNY WAS TOGGED UP
IN HIS BEST SUNDAY CLOTHES ♪
10:05.900 --> 10:09.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ SHE NESTLED CLOSE
TO HIS SIDE ♪
10:09.600 --> 10:13.566 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
♪ THINGS WENT JUST DANDY
TILL HE GOT DOWN THE ROAD ♪
10:13.566 --> 10:16.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED
TO THE OLD MACHINERY ♪
10:16.333 --> 10:18.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ THAT ENGINE GOT HIS GOAT ♪
10:18.066 --> 10:20.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
♪ OFF WENT
HIS HAT AND COAT ♪
10:20.066 --> 10:22.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ EVERYTHING NEEDED REPAIRS ♪
10:22.900 --> 10:24.733 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
♪ HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER ♪
10:24.733 --> 10:26.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ GET OUT AND GET UNDER ♪
10:26.933 --> 10:30.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ TO FIX HIS LITTLE MACHINE ♪
10:30.233 --> 10:33.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
♪ HE WAS JUST DYING TO CUDDLE
HIS QUEEN ♪
10:33.666 --> 10:35.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ BUT EVERY MINUTE ♪
10:35.300 --> 10:37.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ WHEN HE'D BEGIN IT ♪
10:37.200 --> 10:38.466 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
♪ HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER ♪
10:38.466 --> 10:39.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ GET OUT AND GET UNDER ♪
10:39.700 --> 10:41.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ THEN HE'D GET BACK
AT THE WHEEL ♪
10:41.866 --> 10:46.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
♪ A DOZEN TIMES
THEY'D START TO HUG AND KISS ♪
10:46.066 --> 10:50.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ AND THEN THE DARNED OLD
ENGINE, IT WOULD MISS ♪
10:50.033 --> 10:52.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
♪ AND THEN HE'D HAVE TO
GET UNDER ♪
10:52.066 --> 10:53.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ GET OUT AND GET UNDER ♪
10:53.866 --> 10:57.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ AND FIX UP HIS AUTOMOBILE ♪
11:07.900 --> 11:12.600 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
Narrator: AT A TIME WHEN
THE AVERAGE AMERICAN EARNED
LESS THAN $500 A YEAR,
11:12.600 --> 11:15.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
EARLY AUTOMOBILES WERE BEYOND
MOST PEOPLE'S REACH:
11:15.600 --> 11:20.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
RANGING IN PRICE FROM $650
TO MORE THAN $6,000
11:20.333 --> 11:23.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND LIMITED TO A SMALL NUMBER
OF WEALTHY BUYERS--
11:23.600 --> 11:28.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DOCTORS, BUSINESSMEN,
AND MILLIONAIRES.
11:28.700 --> 11:30.600 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
AND FOR MANY AMERICANS,
11:30.600 --> 11:34.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AUTOMOBILES WERE NOT ONLY
TOO EXPENSIVE,
11:34.633 --> 11:38.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEY WERE DOWNRIGHT
DANGEROUS.
11:38.133 --> 11:40.400 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
IN CITIES
ALL AROUND THE NATION,
11:40.400 --> 11:43.233 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
RESIDENTS BEGAN COMPLAINING
11:43.233 --> 11:45.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ABOUT THE NOISE
OF THE NEW MACHINES,
11:45.366 --> 11:48.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE CLOUDS OF DUST THEY RAISED
WHIRLING THROUGH TOWN,
11:48.533 --> 11:50.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AS WELL AS THE THREAT
THEY SEEMED TO POSE
11:50.900 --> 11:56.433 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
TO PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLISTS,
AND HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGES.
11:59.466 --> 12:01.200 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
Duncan:
VERMONT PASSED A LAW--
12:01.200 --> 12:02.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BASED ON AN ENGLISH LAW
CALLED THE RED FLAG LAW--
12:02.933 --> 12:06.466 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THAT REQUIRED AN ADULT
TO WALK IN FRONT OF THE CAR
12:06.466 --> 12:09.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WAVING A RED FLAG.
12:09.533 --> 12:10.766 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
KIND OF DEFEATS THE PURPOSE
OF GOING OUT IN THE CAR
12:10.766 --> 12:13.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IF SOMEBODY'S GOT TO WALK
IN FRONT OF IT.
12:18.366 --> 12:19.633 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
Narrator:
TENNESSEE REQUIRED MOTORISTS
12:19.633 --> 12:24.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
TO POST A WEEK'S NOTICE
BEFORE STARTING OUT ON ANY TRIP.
12:24.700 --> 12:26.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
IN GLENCOE, ILLINOIS,
12:26.566 --> 12:28.633 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
SOMEONE STRETCHED A STEEL CABLE
ACROSS THE ROAD
12:28.633 --> 12:33.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TO STOP WHAT THEY CALLED
"THE DEVIL WAGONS."
12:33.166 --> 12:38.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
SOME CITIES BANNED
AUTOMOBILES ALTOGETHER.
12:44.366 --> 12:46.733 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
BY THE END OF THE 19th CENTURY,
12:46.733 --> 12:50.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
THERE WERE ONLY 8,000
AUTOMOBILES IN THE UNITED STATES
12:50.100 --> 12:52.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
COMPARED TO 14 MILLION HORSES.
12:52.633 --> 12:55.600 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
BLACKSMITHS
OUTNUMBERED DOCTORS,
12:55.600 --> 12:58.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND MOST AMERICANS
RARELY TRAVELED
12:58.500 --> 13:00.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FARTHER THAN 12 MILES
FROM THEIR HOME--
13:00.800 --> 13:03.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE DISTANCE A HORSE AND WAGON
MIGHT TAKE THEM IN A DAY.
13:06.833 --> 13:11.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Duncan: THE ROADS WERE TERRIBLE;
NO ROAD SIGNS.
13:11.833 --> 13:16.366 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
BECAUSE YOU'RE SORT OF CONFINED
TO THESE SMALL AREAS,
13:16.366 --> 13:18.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
YOU TRAVELED IN THE AREA
THAT YOU ALREADY KNEW,
13:18.700 --> 13:23.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SO THERE WAS NO NEED
FOR HIGHWAY NUMBERS.
13:23.366 --> 13:26.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THERE WAS NO NEED TO HAVE
A LOT OF SIGNAGE,
13:26.533 --> 13:29.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BECAUSE PEOPLE TRAVELED
THE ROADS THAT THEY TRAVELED--
13:29.433 --> 13:31.933 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
SORT OF LIKE BOSTON TODAY.
13:31.933 --> 13:35.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IF YOU'RE FROM OUT OF TOWN,
YOU KNOW, GOOD LUCK.
13:35.800 --> 13:39.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THERE'D BE THESE THICK BOOKS
THAT WOULD SAY, FOR INSTANCE,
13:39.933 --> 13:44.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
"START AT MAIN STREET
WHERE THE CIVIL WAR STATUE IS.
13:44.066 --> 13:45.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"GO DOWN WEST STREET.
13:45.100 --> 13:48.100 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
"FOLLOW THE TROLLEY TRACKS
AS FAR AS THEY GO.
13:48.100 --> 13:52.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"ONCE YOU'VE GONE 0.3 MILES PAST
THE END OF THE TROLLEY TRACKS,
13:52.333 --> 13:55.666 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
"TAKE A RIGHT UNDER
THE GRANITE RAILROAD BRIDGE.
13:55.666 --> 13:58.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"GO TO THE STONE
WATERING TROUGH.
13:58.733 --> 14:00.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
TAKE A RIGHT THERE."
14:00.033 --> 14:04.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
GOING, SAY, 20 MILES
MIGHT BE TWO PAGES OF THIS BOOK.
14:04.100 --> 14:06.333 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
SOME OF THEM EVEN TOOK
PHOTOGRAPHS
14:06.333 --> 14:09.166 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
TO SHOW THESE JUNCTURES,
14:09.166 --> 14:11.900 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
SO YOU COULD FLIP THROUGH
THE PAGES
14:11.900 --> 14:14.366 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
TO SEE WHERE YOU WERE.
14:14.366 --> 14:17.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT THOSE WERE
JUST FOR THE EAST.
14:17.666 --> 14:20.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ONCE YOU GOT PAST
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER,
14:20.433 --> 14:22.566 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
THEN YOU WERE ON YOUR OWN.
14:22.566 --> 14:24.833 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
NOBODY KNEW WHAT THE ROADS
WERE LIKE OUT THERE.
14:28.600 --> 14:31.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Narrator: ONLY A SMALL NUMBER
OF AMERICANS BELIEVED
14:31.433 --> 14:32.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THAT THE AUTOMOBILE
REPRESENTED THE FUTURE,
14:32.666 --> 14:36.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DESTINED SOMEDAY TO MAKE
BOTH THE HORSE
14:36.066 --> 14:39.166 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
AND THE RAILROAD OBSOLETE.
14:41.466 --> 14:42.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
AND TO PROVE IT,
14:42.966 --> 14:46.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
A FEW AUTOMOBILE FANATICS
DECIDED TO TRY TO DRIVE
14:46.833 --> 14:48.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
ALL THE WAY
ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
14:52.000 --> 14:54.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
IN THE SUMMER OF 1899,
14:54.200 --> 14:55.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WITH THE BACKING
OF TWO NEWSPAPERS
14:55.366 --> 14:56.866 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
AND A CAR MANUFACTURER,
14:56.866 --> 15:01.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
LOUISE AND JOHN DAVIS MOTORED
THEIR 7-HORSEPOWER DURYEA
15:01.800 --> 15:05.633 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
OUT OF NEW YORK CITY,
HEADED FOR SAN FRANCISCO--
15:05.633 --> 15:09.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE FIRST KNOWN ATTEMPT TO DRIVE
A CAR FROM COAST TO COAST.
15:09.866 --> 15:16.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
BUT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY,
EVERYTHING WENT WRONG.
15:16.166 --> 15:19.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE DAVISES' PROGRESS
WAS SO SLOW
15:19.433 --> 15:21.733 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
THAT A ONE-ARMED BICYCLIST
15:21.733 --> 15:25.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHO HAD LEFT NEW YORK
10 DAYS AFTER THEIR DEPARTURE
15:25.033 --> 15:29.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
PASSED THEM BEFORE
THEY REACHED SYRACUSE.
15:29.566 --> 15:32.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TWO YEARS AFTER
THE DAVISES' FAILURE,
15:32.466 --> 15:34.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
ALEXANDER WINTON,
15:34.166 --> 15:36.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
ONE OF THE NATION'S LEADING
CAR MANUFACTURERS,
15:36.633 --> 15:38.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DECIDED TO DRIVE
FROM WEST TO EAST
15:38.966 --> 15:42.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
IN ORDER TO TACKLE
THE HARDEST PART OF
THE JOURNEY FIRST.
15:42.866 --> 15:47.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WINTON LEFT SAN FRANCISCO
ON MAY 20, 1901,
15:47.166 --> 15:50.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ACCOMPANIED BY HIS FULL-TIME
PUBLICIST CHARLES B. SHANKS.
15:50.700 --> 15:53.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THEY MADE GOOD TIME
SURMOUNTING THE SIERRAS
15:53.800 --> 15:57.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND WERE SOON CROSSING
THE DESERTS OF NEVADA.
15:57.533 --> 16:00.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT ON THE TENTH DAY
OF THE TRIP,
16:00.000 --> 16:05.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
A MERE 530 MILES FROM
THEIR STARTING POINT
IN SAN FRANCISCO,
16:05.633 --> 16:08.600 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
THE CAR BECAME HOPELESSLY STUCK
IN A SAND DRIFT,
16:08.600 --> 16:12.633 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
AND WINTON CALLED AN ABRUPT END
TO HIS JOURNEY.
16:14.366 --> 16:19.600 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
THE NEXT PERSON TO TRY WAS
NEARLY WHOLLY UNQUALIFIED
TO MAKE THE TRIP:
16:19.600 --> 16:22.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
LACKED ANY CORPORATE BACKING
OR PUBLICITY,
16:22.166 --> 16:25.033 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
KNEW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT
AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS,
16:25.033 --> 16:28.433 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
AND HAD DONE
LITTLE OR NO PLANNING.
16:28.433 --> 16:32.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
IT WAS HORATIO NELSON JACKSON.
16:32.466 --> 16:34.733 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
Duncan:
HORATIO NELSON JACKSON, TO ME,
16:34.733 --> 16:38.200 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
SEEMS LIKE SORT OF
A TEDDY ROOSEVELT-TYPE FIGURE:
16:38.200 --> 16:41.466 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
OPTIMISTIC, FULL OF ENTHUSIASMS
AND PASSIONS,
16:41.466 --> 16:43.466 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
SORT OF
AN INDOMITABLE SPIRIT,
16:43.466 --> 16:46.066 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THE NEW,
16:46.066 --> 16:48.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ALWAYS WANTING TO TRY
SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
16:48.033 --> 16:52.233 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
AS A GUY WHO HAD HAD
FAST-RUNNING HORSES
IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT,
16:52.233 --> 16:53.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ONCE THE AUTOMOBILE
SHOWED UP,
16:53.966 --> 16:56.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
YOU COULD SORT OF SEE
HIS EYES SORT OF SPIN,
16:56.900 --> 16:59.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SAYING, "I GOTTA HAVE
ONE OF THESE."
16:59.100 --> 17:01.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HE JUST BECAME A FANATIC
FOR AUTOMOBILES.
17:01.433 --> 17:04.933 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
Narrator: BORN IN 1872,
17:04.933 --> 17:06.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
JACKSON WAS A MINISTER'S SON
17:06.866 --> 17:09.300 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
KNOWN MORE
FOR HIS GUNG-HO EAGERNESS
17:09.300 --> 17:11.733 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
THAN FOR HIS INTROSPECTION.
17:11.733 --> 17:13.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
HE HAD RECENTLY MARRIED
BERTHA WELLS,
17:13.766 --> 17:17.300 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THE DAUGHTER OF ONE OF
THE RICHEST MEN IN VERMONT,
17:17.300 --> 17:19.633 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
FOUNDER OF
PAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND--
17:19.633 --> 17:25.066 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
A POPULAR CURE-ALL
THAT WAS 20% GRAIN ALCOHOL.
17:25.066 --> 17:27.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AFTER GIVING UP
HIS MEDICAL PRACTICE,
17:27.833 --> 17:30.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON HAD TRAVELED
TO MEXICO AND ALASKA
17:30.466 --> 17:33.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
TO INVEST IN GOLD
AND SILVER MINES.
17:33.533 --> 17:37.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
HE WAS ON HIS WAY HOME
WHEN HE STOPPED IN SAN FRANCISCO
17:37.433 --> 17:40.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND MADE HIS IMPULSIVE WAGER.
17:40.566 --> 17:42.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
Duncan: THIS IS A STORY
ABOUT A WHIM,
17:42.633 --> 17:46.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ABOUT AN INDIVIDUAL
WHO JUST DECIDES,
17:46.700 --> 17:48.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"I WANT TO DO IT."
17:48.700 --> 17:52.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
4 DAYS AFTER MAKING
A $50 BET,
17:52.766 --> 17:56.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
HE LEFT TO TRY TO DO
SOMETHING THAT NOBODY
HAD EVER DONE BEFORE.
17:56.533 --> 17:59.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION--
17:59.700 --> 18:01.866 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THAT WAS A RESULT OF YEARS
AND YEARS OF PLANNING.
18:01.866 --> 18:06.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IT WAS ADVANCING SCIENCE,
IT WAS DIPLOMACY,
18:06.400 --> 18:09.666 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
IT WAS EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES
OF THE UNITED STATES:
18:09.666 --> 18:12.633 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
A VERY SERIOUS UNDERTAKING.
18:12.633 --> 18:15.033 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THIS IS NOT A VERY SERIOUS
UNDERTAKING.
18:15.033 --> 18:16.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THIS IS ALL ABOUT
A GUY JUST DECIDING,
18:16.766 --> 18:20.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
"I WANT TO GET IN A CAR
AND GET ON THE ROAD."
18:22.600 --> 18:26.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Narrator: BUT FIRST
HE HAD TO FIND A CAR.
18:26.100 --> 18:27.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AFTER A QUICK SEARCH,
18:27.200 --> 18:32.066 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
JACKSON SETTLED ON A CHERRY-RED
1903 TOURING CAR
18:32.066 --> 18:36.066 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5%
MADE BY
ALEXANDER WINTON'S COMPANY.
18:36.066 --> 18:38.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
EVEN THOUGH IT WAS
MORE THAN A MONTH OLD
18:38.466 --> 18:40.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
WITH NEARLY 1,000 MILES ON IT,
18:40.600 --> 18:45.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
HE PAID $3,000 FOR THE CAR--
$500 MORE THAN THE LIST PRICE--
18:45.566 --> 18:48.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
BECAUSE IT WAS THE ONLY ONE OF
ITS KIND HE COULD FIND FOR SALE.
18:48.966 --> 18:53.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE WINTON HAD A TWO-CYLINDER,
20-HORSEPOWER ENGINE
18:53.266 --> 18:54.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
UNDERNEATH THE DRIVER'S SEAT
18:54.900 --> 18:56.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WITH A CHAIN DRIVE;
18:56.900 --> 19:00.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
CAPABLE OF SPEEDS
UP TO 30 MILES PER HOUR;
19:00.033 --> 19:05.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NO TOP AND NO WINDSHIELD;
STEERING WHEEL ON THE RIGHT.
19:05.466 --> 19:08.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
JACKSON REMOVED THE BACKSEAT
19:08.833 --> 19:11.100 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE PILES
OF EQUIPMENT
19:11.100 --> 19:13.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HE'D QUICKLY PURCHASED
FOR THE JOURNEY--
19:13.300 --> 19:15.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
SLEEPING BAGS
AND COOKING GEAR;
19:15.400 --> 19:18.400 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
A SET OF TOOLS INCLUDING
A SPADE AND A FIREMAN'S AX;
19:18.400 --> 19:22.033 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
A BLOCK AND TACKLE
WITH 150 FEET OF HEMP ROPE;
19:22.033 --> 19:25.733 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
A SHOTGUN, RIFLE, PISTOLS,
AND AMMUNITION;
19:25.733 --> 19:29.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND A SMALL KODAK CAMERA
TO RECORD HIS TRIP.
19:29.966 --> 19:32.833 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THERE WERE NO GAS STATIONS
AT THE TIME,
19:32.833 --> 19:34.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT STORES IN MOST TOWNS
CARRIED FUEL
19:34.833 --> 19:38.833 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
FOR FARM MACHINERY, STOVES,
AND WATER PUMPS.
19:38.833 --> 19:41.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HE CHRISTENED HIS CAR
THE VERMONT
19:41.000 --> 19:45.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IN HONOR OF THE STATE WHERE
HE LIVED WITH HIS WIFE BERTHA.
19:45.366 --> 19:48.233 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
FOR REASONS
FOREVER LOST TO HISTORY,
19:48.233 --> 19:52.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HE AFFECTIONATELY
CALLED HER "SWIPES."
19:52.033 --> 19:54.766 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
SHE SUPPORTED HIS DECISION
TO MAKE THE TRIP
19:54.766 --> 19:57.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT CHOSE TO RETURN HOME
BY PASSENGER TRAIN
19:57.866 --> 20:01.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
INSTEAD OF COMING ALONG.
20:01.033 --> 20:03.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
IN THE FIRST PLACE,
I DON'T THINK THERE WAS
ANY ROOM FOR HER.
20:03.566 --> 20:06.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
WHO WAS THE MOST
IMPORTANT PERSON
TO TAKE WITH YOU?
20:06.066 --> 20:07.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
NOT YOUR WIFE.
20:07.666 --> 20:11.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE IMPORTANT THING HERE
IS THAT SHE SAID TO HIM,
20:11.633 --> 20:15.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"NELSON, IT'S OK
FOR YOU TO GO."
20:15.766 --> 20:20.366 align:left position:40% line:77% size:50%
OH, I THINK
SHE GAVE HIM
HIS INDEPENDENCE.
20:22.000 --> 20:23.366 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Narrator:
IN BERTHA'S PLACE,
20:23.366 --> 20:26.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
JACKSON HIRED THE MAN
WHO HAD RECOMMENDED THE WINTON
20:26.233 --> 20:28.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AS THE BEST CAR FOR THE TRIP:
20:28.166 --> 20:31.366 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
A 22-YEAR-OLD FORMER
PROFESSIONAL BICYCLE RACER
20:31.366 --> 20:33.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
NAMED SEWALL K. CROCKER,
20:33.400 --> 20:35.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
WHO WAS WORKING IN CALIFORNIA
20:35.400 --> 20:38.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AS A MECHANIC
IN A GASOLINE ENGINE FACTORY.
20:41.233 --> 20:44.466 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
ON THE AFTERNOON
OF MAY 23, 1903,
20:44.466 --> 20:47.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THEY WERE READY TO GO.
20:47.533 --> 20:50.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE TWO MEN STARTED DOWN
SAN FRANCISCO'S MARKET STREET
20:50.966 --> 20:53.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TO CROSS THE BAY
ON THE OAKLAND FERRY
20:53.366 --> 20:55.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
FOR THEIR LONG JOURNEY EAST.
20:59.566 --> 21:03.066 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF
AMERICA'S FIRST ROAD TRIP--
21:03.066 --> 21:04.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
A TRIP THAT WOULD COLLECT
21:04.600 --> 21:05.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
A THOUSAND IMPRESSIONS
OF A COUNTRY
21:05.800 --> 21:11.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND A PEOPLE ON THE CUSP
OF EXTRAORDINARY CHANGE.
21:17.433 --> 21:20.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man as Jackson:
MY DARLING SWIPES,
21:20.566 --> 21:22.700 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THE HARDEST WORK I EVER DID
WAS TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO YOU.
21:22.700 --> 21:26.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I CAME PRETTY NEARLY
HAVING COLD FEET.
21:26.433 --> 21:27.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THERE ISN'T ONE WOMAN
IN 1,000
21:27.800 --> 21:30.733 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THAT WOULD LET A FELLOW DO
WHAT I HAVE DONE,
21:30.733 --> 21:33.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND I CAN TELL YOU, OLD GIRL,
I APPRECIATE IT.
21:35.733 --> 21:37.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
PLEASE GIVE MY BEST LOVE
TO YOUR MOTHER,
21:37.100 --> 21:40.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
AND TELL MY FATHER
AND MOTHER THAT I LOVE
THEM AS MUCH AS EVER.
21:40.433 --> 21:42.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
I SHALL WRITE YOU WHEN I CAN
21:42.966 --> 21:45.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND SHALL DEPEND ON YOU
TO KEEP THEM POSTED.
21:45.666 --> 21:51.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
YOURS TILL NEW YORK,
NELSON.
21:51.166 --> 21:55.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
P.S. TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF,
AND DON'T WORRY.
21:59.266 --> 22:00.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man: THERE IS NO THING
THAT WE CAN DO
22:00.633 --> 22:03.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAT IS MORE AMERICAN
THAN GETTING IN A CAR
22:03.866 --> 22:07.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AND STRIKING OUT
ACROSS COUNTRY.
22:07.400 --> 22:08.800 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
I THINK, AS A NATION,
22:08.800 --> 22:10.966 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
WE CAN THINK OF FEW THINGS
THAT DRAW US MORE STRONGLY
22:10.966 --> 22:15.800 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
THAN A PIECE OF ROADWAY
HEADING TO WE KNOW NOT WHERE.
22:15.800 --> 22:18.600 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
THIS IS THE WAY
THAT WE GROW UP.
22:18.600 --> 22:21.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THIS IS THE WAY THAT
WE ENTER OUR HISTORY:
22:21.800 --> 22:24.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
GET IN A CAR
AND FIND THE COUNTRY.
22:57.766 --> 23:03.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Narrator: 15 MILES FROM OAKLAND,
THE VERMONT BLEW A TIRE.
23:03.700 --> 23:06.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THEY REPLACED IT WITH
THE ONLY SPARE THEY HAD
23:06.500 --> 23:09.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THEN MOTORED ON
ANOTHER 60 MILES
23:09.566 --> 23:12.666 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
BEFORE STOPPING IN THE TOWN
OF TRACY FOR THE NIGHT.
23:12.666 --> 23:16.633 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
THE NEXT DAY,
ON THEIR WAY TO SACRAMENTO,
23:16.633 --> 23:19.200 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
THEY STOPPED AT
A GENERAL STORE
23:19.200 --> 23:21.800 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
TO BUY GASOLINE
FROM AN ANCIENT CLERK
23:21.800 --> 23:26.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
WHO SEEMED BEMUSED
TO SEE TOURISTS IN
A HORSELESS CARRIAGE.
23:26.833 --> 23:30.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Man as Jackson: THE OLD MAN SAID
WHEN HE GOT RICH,
23:30.700 --> 23:33.833 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
HE WAS GOING TO BUY
ONE OF THESE G.D. MACHINES
23:33.833 --> 23:36.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SO THAT HE COULD SPEND
HIS MONEY FAST.
23:36.866 --> 23:40.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
HE WOULD BREAK DOWN
HIS NEIGHBOR'S FENCES
WITH IT, HE SAID.
23:40.000 --> 23:42.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEN HE WOULDN'T HAVE
ANY MONEY LEFT
23:42.033 --> 23:43.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
FOR HIS CHILDREN
TO FIGHT OVER.
23:49.200 --> 23:52.233 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
Narrator:
AFTER COVERING 118 MILES,
23:52.233 --> 23:53.866 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
THEY STOPPED IN SACRAMENTO
23:53.866 --> 23:56.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TO MAKE MINOR REPAIRS
TO THE VERMONT:
23:56.700 --> 23:58.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
FIXING THE SPARK IGNITER,
23:58.866 --> 24:01.166 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
BUYING SOME
SECONDHAND TIRE TUBES
24:01.166 --> 24:03.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
SINCE NO NEW ONES
WERE AVAILABLE,
24:03.266 --> 24:05.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AND ATTACHING
AN ACETYLENE HEADLAMP
24:05.233 --> 24:08.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
TO THE FRONT OF THE CAR
FOR NIGHT DRIVING.
24:10.233 --> 24:12.300 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
HERE THEY ALSO LOOKED OVER
SOME RUDIMENTARY MAPS
24:12.300 --> 24:15.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
TO PLAN THE ROUTE AHEAD.
24:15.266 --> 24:19.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
A FORBIDDING PROSPECT
LAY BEFORE THEM.
24:19.133 --> 24:20.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
AT THE TIME,
24:20.300 --> 24:25.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
OF THE 2.3 MILLION MILES OF ROAD
IN THE UNITED STATES,
24:25.000 --> 24:28.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FEWER THAN 150 MILES
WERE PAVED,
24:28.033 --> 24:31.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AND ALL OF THOSE
WERE WITHIN CITY LIMITS.
24:31.833 --> 24:34.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE REST WERE MOSTLY
DIRT PATHS
24:34.366 --> 24:39.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SUITABLE AT BEST FOR HORSES,
COWS, AND SLOW-MOVING WAGONS.
24:41.433 --> 24:43.400 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
TO CROSS THE CONTINENT,
24:43.400 --> 24:45.566 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
JACKSON DECIDED
IT WOULD BE BEST TO FOLLOW
24:45.566 --> 24:48.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THE ROUTES OF RAILROADS
AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE--
24:48.133 --> 24:51.466 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
TO USE THEIR RIGHTS OF WAY
AS A ROAD IF NECESSARY,
24:51.466 --> 24:52.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
EVEN THEIR TRESTLES
24:52.733 --> 24:57.000 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
IN PLACES WHERE NO OTHER BRIDGE
COULD BE FOUND.
24:57.000 --> 25:00.000 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
AND TO AVOID
THE SANDY WASTES OF NEVADA,
25:00.000 --> 25:01.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHICH HAD DEFEATED
ALEXANDER WINTON
25:01.733 --> 25:03.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
TWO YEARS EARLIER,
25:03.000 --> 25:06.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
HE DETERMINED TO DETOUR
NORTH THROUGH OREGON,
25:06.633 --> 25:09.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD ADD MORE
THAN 1,000 MILES TO HIS JOURNEY
25:09.100 --> 25:11.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AND FOR A TIME,
25:11.933 --> 25:16.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
TAKE HIM THROUGH PLACES WHERE
EVEN RAILROADS DID NOT EXIST.
25:19.666 --> 25:22.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man as Jackson:
MY DARLING SWIPES,
25:22.700 --> 25:25.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WE LEAVE IN THE MORNING
FOR OROVILLE,
25:25.633 --> 25:26.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE LAST RAILWAY POINT
WE WILL HAVE
25:26.666 --> 25:30.200 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
UNTIL WE STRIKE
ONTARIO, OREGON.
25:30.200 --> 25:33.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WHEN WE GET THERE,
THE WORST WILL BE OVER.
25:33.533 --> 25:35.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
I CAN RUN THE CAR
AS WELL AS CROCKER
25:35.500 --> 25:39.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND HAVE RATHER SURPRISED HIM.
25:39.000 --> 25:42.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WE TAKE TWO HOURS ON
AND TWO OFF AT THE WHEEL.
25:42.433 --> 25:44.633 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
HE'S A MIGHTY GOOD MAN.
25:44.633 --> 25:46.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
I AM FINE,
25:46.500 --> 25:49.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THE ONLY TROUBLE IS,
I MISS YOU SO.
25:49.133 --> 25:52.366 align:left position:42.5% line:89% size:47.5%
NELSON.
25:54.733 --> 25:58.166 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
Narrator: ON MAY 25,
THEY STARTED FOR OROVILLE,
25:58.166 --> 26:00.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
TRAVELING THROUGH MILES
AND MILES OF ORCHARDS
26:00.933 --> 26:03.400 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
ON DUSTY ROADS
JACKSON DESCRIBED AS
26:03.400 --> 26:08.300 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
"A COMPOUND OF RUTS, BUMPS,
AND THANK YOU, MA'AMS."
26:08.300 --> 26:10.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"WE NEVER NOTICED,"
HE ADDED,
26:10.233 --> 26:14.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"AS OUR COOKING UTENSILS
JOLTED OFF ONE BY ONE.
26:14.066 --> 26:16.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
"AND WHEN WE DISCOVERED
OUR LOSS,
26:16.233 --> 26:20.266 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
WE COULD NOT AFFORD
TO TURN BACK TO SEEK THEM."
26:20.266 --> 26:22.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEN THEY DISCOVERED
SOMETHING ELSE.
26:22.333 --> 26:25.400 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
THEY WERE LOST.
26:27.266 --> 26:31.400 align:left position:32.5% line:77% size:57.5%
Man as Jackson:
WE MET A RED-HAIRED YOUNG WOMAN
RIDING ALONG ON A WHITE HORSE.
26:31.400 --> 26:32.900 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
"WHICH WAY TO MARYSVILLE?"
I ASKED HER.
26:32.900 --> 26:37.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
"RIGHT DOWN THAT ROAD,"
SHE SAID, AND POINTED.
26:37.066 --> 26:39.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WE TOOK THAT ROAD FOR MILES,
26:39.766 --> 26:44.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND THEN IT CAME TO A DEAD END
AT AN ISOLATED FARMHOUSE.
26:44.233 --> 26:46.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE FAMILY ALL TURNED OUT
TO STARE AT US
26:46.666 --> 26:50.566 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
AND TOLD US
WE'D HAVE TO GO BACK.
26:50.566 --> 26:54.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
WE WENT BACK AND
MET THE RED-HAIRED
YOUNG WOMAN AGAIN.
26:54.000 --> 26:57.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"WHY DID YOU SEND US
WAY DOWN THERE?" I ASKED HER.
26:57.900 --> 27:02.133 align:left position:32.5% line:77% size:57.5%
"I WANTED PA
AND MA AND MY HUSBAND
TO SEE YOU," SHE SAID.
27:02.133 --> 27:04.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"THEY'VE NEVER SEEN
AN AUTOMOBILE."
27:06.466 --> 27:09.566 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
Narrator:
LONG AFTER NIGHTFALL,
27:09.566 --> 27:11.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
JACKSON AND CROCKER
FINALLY PULLED INTO OROVILLE
27:11.666 --> 27:15.600 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
BY THE LIGHT
OF THEIR NEW SEARCHLAMP.
27:15.600 --> 27:18.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
"EVERYTHING IS ALL OK,"
A TIRED JACKSON WROTE HIS WIFE.
27:18.966 --> 27:22.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"I SHALL TAKE MY CAR THROUGH
TO NEW YORK," HE PROMISED,
27:22.633 --> 27:24.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
UNDERLINING THE WORDS
FOR EMPHASIS
27:24.766 --> 27:28.800 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
BEFORE SIGNING THE LETTER,
"YOURS TILL DEATH."
27:32.633 --> 27:36.700 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
EARLY ON THE MORNING OF MAY 27,
THEIR FIFTH DAY OUT,
27:36.700 --> 27:41.633 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
THE ASCENT INTO
THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS BEGAN.
27:41.633 --> 27:43.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEY CLIMBED STEEP,
ROCKY TRAILS
27:43.800 --> 27:46.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NO AUTOMOBILE HAD
EVER TRAVELED--
27:46.000 --> 27:48.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
MOSTLY LOW-GEAR WORK,
JACKSON WROTE,
27:48.766 --> 27:51.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THAT REQUIRED FREQUENT STOPS
FOR CROCKER TO FIX THE CLUTCH.
28:01.300 --> 28:03.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man as Jackson: OFTEN,
THE TRAIL NARROWED TO 10 FEET,
28:03.833 --> 28:07.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
ONE-WAY THOROUGHFARES
ESTABLISHED BY NATURE.
28:07.366 --> 28:12.666 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
SOMETIMES IT WAS NECESSARY
TO REMOVE BOULDER BLOCKADES
BY HAND.
28:12.666 --> 28:15.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
SLIPPING ON SHALE
AND LOOSE ROCKS,
28:15.700 --> 28:17.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WEAVING AROUND
MOUNTAIN LEDGES,
28:17.633 --> 28:20.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WE STAKED OUR CAREERS AGAINST
NONE-TOO-RELIABLE BRAKES
28:20.933 --> 28:22.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
ON STEEP DESCENTS,
28:22.466 --> 28:25.866 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AROUND HAIRPIN TURNS WHERE,
JOLTING AND SKIDDING,
28:25.866 --> 28:30.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WE SUDDENLY LOOKED DOWN
SHEER PRECIPICES.
28:50.966 --> 28:53.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Narrator: SHARP STONES
PIERCED THE CAR'S TIRES,
28:53.800 --> 28:55.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FORCING THEM TO PATCH
THE INNER TUBES
28:55.933 --> 28:58.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND THEN REINFLATE THEM
BY HAND PUMP.
29:01.333 --> 29:04.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
THE WINDING TRAIL
WAS CRISSCROSSED
BY MOUNTAIN STREAMS,
29:04.300 --> 29:06.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
USUALLY WITH NO BRIDGES
OVER THEM.
29:06.966 --> 29:08.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON AND CROCKER
HAD NO CHOICE
29:08.933 --> 29:11.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT TO PUT THE VERMONT
INTO HIGH GEAR
29:11.100 --> 29:15.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND TRY TO GET ACROSS
AT TOP SPEED.
29:15.000 --> 29:17.833 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
"WE WELCOMED SOME
OF THE CREEKS," JACKSON SAID,
29:17.833 --> 29:21.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"TO LET THE CAR'S
HOT TIRES COOL."
29:27.766 --> 29:32.433 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
BUT ONE CREEK WAS TOO DEEP,
AND THE VERMONT GOT STUCK.
29:32.433 --> 29:34.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
THE MEN TOOK OFF
THEIR CLOTHES,
29:34.033 --> 29:38.100 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
WADED TO THE OTHER SHORE
WITH THE BLOCK AND TACKLE,
29:38.100 --> 29:39.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
ATTACHED IT TO A TREE,
29:39.633 --> 29:40.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
PULLED THE CAR OUT
WITH THE ROPE,
29:40.600 --> 29:43.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THEN CONTINUED
ON THE BUMPY ROAD.
29:48.900 --> 29:51.933 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
Man as Jackson:
WE WERE LUCKY NOT TO HAVE LOST
OUR BLOCK AND TACKLE,
29:51.933 --> 29:55.133 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
FOR BIT BY BIT,
OUR EQUIPMENT WAS DISAPPEARING,
29:55.133 --> 29:59.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
INCLUDING MY OWN SPECTACLES
AND FOUNTAIN PEN.
30:03.433 --> 30:04.766 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
Narrator: THE NEXT DAY,
30:04.766 --> 30:08.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEY TOOK A WRONG ROAD
AND LOST 20 MILES.
30:08.233 --> 30:10.566 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
THE CLUTCH NEEDED FIXING AGAIN,
30:10.566 --> 30:14.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND THEN THE LINE FEEDING OIL
TO THE CYLINDERS GOT CLOGGED.
30:14.566 --> 30:17.433 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
WHEN CROCKER CRAWLED UNDERNEATH
THE CAR TO REOPEN IT,
30:17.433 --> 30:20.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TWO GALLONS OF OIL
SPILLED ONTO HIM
30:20.633 --> 30:22.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
BEFORE HE COULD STOP IT.
30:22.066 --> 30:26.600 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
"HE IS NOW WEARING MY CLOTHES,"
JACKSON WROTE TO BERTHA,
30:26.600 --> 30:29.766 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
"AND THE OTHERS
ARE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD."
30:32.200 --> 30:33.300 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
DURING IT ALL,
30:33.300 --> 30:36.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
JACKSON SOMEHOW LOST
YET ANOTHER PAIR OF SPECTACLES
30:36.700 --> 30:39.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
WHILE THE VERMONT BOUNCED ALONG.
30:42.733 --> 30:47.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT HE COULDN'T HELP
ADMIRING THE SCENERY.
30:47.133 --> 30:50.066 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Man as Jackson:
PASSED THROUGH WINTER'S CANYON.
30:50.066 --> 30:52.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
VERY NARROW ROAD.
30:52.033 --> 30:56.066 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
STREAM WITH BEAUTIFUL FALLS
1,000 FEET BELOW
30:56.066 --> 30:58.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND HIGH GRANITE WALLS
ON EACH SIDE.
30:58.966 --> 31:01.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
A GRAND SIGHT.
31:01.333 --> 31:05.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I NEVER WENT THROUGH
SUCH COUNTRY IN MY LIFE.
31:10.966 --> 31:13.733 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
Man: I THINK
AN EARLY AUTOMOBILE TRIP
31:13.733 --> 31:17.633 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
WOULD BE ABOUT THE MOST FUN
A PERSON COULD HAVE.
31:17.633 --> 31:20.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
IT WAS A VISCERAL EXPERIENCE--
31:20.366 --> 31:23.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE LANDSCAPE COMING
AT YOU AS IT DID,
31:23.866 --> 31:27.866 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAD
NO WINDSHIELD OR TOP
TO BLOCK YOUR VIEW.
31:27.866 --> 31:30.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
IT'S ALL AROUND YOU.
31:30.166 --> 31:32.233 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5%
IT'S NO WONDER
IT APPEALED SO MUCH TO JACKSON,
31:32.233 --> 31:33.133 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80%
'CAUSE HE, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE,
31:33.133 --> 31:35.000 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5%
HAD RIDDEN TRAINS
MOST OF HIS LIFE--
31:35.000 --> 31:37.600 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
ENCLOSED, CRAMPED,
STUFFY RAILROAD CARS.
31:37.600 --> 31:39.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHAT A DIFFERENCE
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN.
31:39.233 --> 31:42.100 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
Narrator: MOUNT SHASTA,
31:42.100 --> 31:44.900 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
WHICH FOR DAYS HAD BEEN IN VIEW
OFF AND ON "LIKE A GUIDEPOST,"
31:44.900 --> 31:45.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
JACKSON WROTE,
31:45.833 --> 31:48.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NOW FADED COMPLETELY
FROM SIGHT BEHIND THEM
31:48.800 --> 31:51.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AS THEY CAME DOWN
OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS
31:51.433 --> 31:53.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND HEADED FOR THE TOWN
OF ALTURAS
31:53.966 --> 31:57.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IN THE NORTHEASTERN
CORNER OF CALIFORNIA.
32:00.033 --> 32:01.633 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Man as Jackson:
MY DARLING GIRL,
32:01.633 --> 32:04.233 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
WE HAVE CROSSED
THE MOUNTAINS
32:04.233 --> 32:05.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND DON'T EXPECT TO
COME TO ANY MORE
32:05.266 --> 32:08.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
UNTIL WE GET INTO IDAHO.
32:08.333 --> 32:14.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WE HAVE PROVEN THAT MY MACHINE
CAN DO OR GO ANYWHERE.
32:14.066 --> 32:16.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
I FEEL CONFIDENT
WE CAN MAKE IT.
32:18.466 --> 32:20.733 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
HOW I WISH YOU WERE WITH ME
32:20.733 --> 32:24.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE
FOR YOU TO TAKE THE TRIP.
32:24.433 --> 32:25.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WITH A BARRELFUL OF LOVE,
32:25.433 --> 32:31.200 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
I AM, AS ALWAYS, YOURS, NELSON.
32:57.500 --> 33:00.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
Man: THE ALTURAS PLAIN DEALER:
33:00.100 --> 33:04.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
QUITE A FLURRY OF EXCITEMENT
WAS ERECTED SATURDAY EVENING
33:04.100 --> 33:06.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
BY THE ARRIVAL
OF AN AUTOMOBILE.
33:06.866 --> 33:09.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
VERY FEW OF OUR CITIZENS
HAD EVER SEEN THIS--
33:09.666 --> 33:13.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ONE OF THE WONDERS
OF THE CENTURY,
33:13.000 --> 33:15.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND LARGE CROWDS GAZED
WITH CURIOUS INTEREST
33:15.500 --> 33:19.033 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
AT THE HORSELESS WAGON.
33:19.033 --> 33:20.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THE INDIANS ESPECIALLY
33:20.400 --> 33:23.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NEVER TIRED OF GAZING
AT THE MACHINE.
33:23.700 --> 33:27.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
INDEED, HAD A FLYING MACHINE
LIT DOWN IN THEIR MIDST,
33:27.600 --> 33:31.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IT WOULD NOT HAVE CREATED
GREATER ASTONISHMENT.
33:31.800 --> 33:33.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Narrator: IN ALTURAS,
33:33.566 --> 33:35.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON DECIDED
TO WAIT FOR A DAY.
33:35.633 --> 33:37.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HE HAD TELEGRAPHED
BACK TO SAN FRANCISCO
33:37.966 --> 33:42.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
FOR A NEW SET OF
BADLY NEEDED TIRES,
SOME NEW BATTERIES,
33:42.200 --> 33:46.700 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND A NEW CYCLOMETER
TO HELP HIM MEASURE DISTANCES,
33:46.700 --> 33:49.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND HE HAD BEEN PROMISED
BY WELLS FARGO
33:49.366 --> 33:54.033 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
THAT THE STAGECOACH
WITH HIS SHIPMENT WOULD
SOON CATCH UP WITH HIM.
33:54.033 --> 33:58.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Duncan: I LOVE THE IRONY
OF THE IMAGE OF JACKSON
33:58.966 --> 34:02.700 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
WHEN HE WAS
IN ALTURAS, CALIFORNIA.
34:02.700 --> 34:05.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
HE NEEDS SOME SPARE TIRES,
AND HE NEEDS SOME OTHER PARTS,
34:05.833 --> 34:07.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THE ONLY WAY
HE'S GONNA GET THEM
34:07.866 --> 34:09.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IS FOR THEM TO ARRIVE
BY WHAT?
34:09.900 --> 34:11.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
BY STAGECOACH.
34:11.400 --> 34:16.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HE CAN'T GO ANYWHERE
UNTIL THE OLD STAGE ARRIVES.
34:16.900 --> 34:18.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IT'S NOT QUITE A PASSING
OF THE ERA,
34:18.733 --> 34:20.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BECAUSE YOU'RE STILL
RELYING ON THE OLD ERA
34:20.866 --> 34:23.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TO GET THE NEW ERA
IN MOTION.
34:25.566 --> 34:29.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Narrator: ONE DAY PASSED,
THEN A SECOND AND A THIRD.
34:29.933 --> 34:32.633 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
STILL NO TIRES.
34:34.600 --> 34:37.300 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
Man as Jackson: MONDAY, JUNE 1:
34:37.300 --> 34:38.500 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
WELL, OLD GIRL,
34:38.500 --> 34:39.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
I AM RATHER PROVOKED
34:39.866 --> 34:41.400 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
OVER OUR DELAY.
34:41.400 --> 34:45.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I'VE LOST 5 1/2 DAYS.
THIS IS A BAD START.
34:45.700 --> 34:49.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
BUT JUST AS SOON AS
I CAN GET DECENT TIRES,
34:49.866 --> 34:51.500 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
WE WILL MAKE A RECORD RUN.
34:51.500 --> 34:55.566 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
CROCKER IS
MORE INTERESTED THAN EVER
34:55.566 --> 34:57.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND IS KEEPING THE MACHINE UP
IN GOOD SHAPE.
34:57.866 --> 35:02.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I FEEL MORE CONFIDENT
THAT I CAN MAKE NEW YORK.
35:02.033 --> 35:04.333 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
WE ARE CAUSING
A GREAT SENSATION.
35:04.333 --> 35:06.866 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
IT IS THE FIRST MACHINE
35:06.866 --> 35:08.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAT HAS EVER GONE
OVER THESE MOUNTAINS.
35:08.100 --> 35:13.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
YESTERDAY THE FARMERS DROVE IN
FOR MILES TO SEE MY MACHINE,
35:13.266 --> 35:15.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THERE HAS BEEN
A HUNDRED PEOPLE
35:15.266 --> 35:18.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AROUND THE LIVERY STABLE
SINCE OUR ARRIVAL.
35:18.266 --> 35:22.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I'VE BEEN OFFERED ALL PRICES
TO TAKE THEM FOR A RIDE.
35:22.266 --> 35:24.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
I HAVE PROMISED
SOME OF THE COWPUNCHERS A RIDE
35:24.633 --> 35:27.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IF THEY WILL GET ME UP
A GOOD ROUNDUP.
35:27.600 --> 35:31.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THEY'RE PLANNING FOR IT
THIS AFTERNOON,
35:31.366 --> 35:34.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND I EXPECT TO SEE A REGULAR
WILD WEST SHOW.
35:42.233 --> 35:44.033 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Narrator:
BY TUESDAY, JUNE 2,
35:44.033 --> 35:46.766 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
THE SHIPMENT
STILL HAD NOT ARRIVED.
35:46.766 --> 35:49.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
JACKSON LEFT ALTURAS ANYWAY--
35:49.366 --> 35:54.566 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
"IN NO VERY GOOD HUMOR,"
ACCORDING TO THE LOCAL PAPER.
35:54.566 --> 35:58.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
BUT AFTER ONLY A FEW MILES,
A FRONT SPRING BROKE,
35:58.800 --> 36:02.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND THE VERMONT LIMPED TOWARD
LAKEVIEW, OREGON,
36:02.500 --> 36:03.833 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
AT UNDER 10 MILES PER HOUR.
36:05.566 --> 36:09.033 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
Woman: THE LAKEVIEW HERALD:
36:09.033 --> 36:10.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
A TELEGRAM WAS RECEIVED HERE
TUESDAY MORNING
36:10.666 --> 36:14.000 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
THAT THE WONDER
HAD LEFT ALTURAS
36:14.000 --> 36:17.600 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND WOULD REACH THIS PLACE
IN ABOUT TWO HOURS.
36:17.600 --> 36:21.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
THIS WAS ENOUGH TO
PUT EVERY MAN, WOMAN,
AND CHILD IN LAKEVIEW
36:21.466 --> 36:24.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
ON THE KEEN EDGE
OF EXPECTANCY.
36:26.666 --> 36:29.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man: THE WAY THE STREETS
OF LAKEVIEW
36:29.566 --> 36:32.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WERE LINED WITH PEOPLE
TUESDAY AFTERNOON,
36:32.233 --> 36:35.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ONE WOULD THINK A CIRCUS
WAS COMING TO TOWN,
36:35.400 --> 36:38.766 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
OR A 4th OF JULY PROCESSION
WAS ABOUT TO PASS.
36:40.666 --> 36:42.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WHILE IT WAS NEITHER,
36:42.433 --> 36:44.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE PEOPLE'S CURIOSITY
HAD BEEN AROUSED
36:44.000 --> 36:49.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
FROM A REPORT THAT AN AUTOMOBILE
WAS COMING THIS WAY,
36:49.000 --> 36:51.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND THAT IF THEY WISHED
TO SEE IT PASS
36:51.433 --> 36:54.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IT WAS NECESSARY TO HAVE
A SEAT IN THE FRONT ROW.
36:54.866 --> 37:00.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
OTHERWISE IT MIGHT GO THROUGH
AT THE RATE OF 90 MILES AN HOUR
37:00.000 --> 37:03.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND WOULD BE OUT OF SIGHT
BEFORE THEY COULD RUN A BLOCK.
37:08.466 --> 37:11.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
IT HOVE IN SIGHT AT JUST 4:00,
37:11.300 --> 37:16.866 align:left position:12.5% line:77% size:77.5%
AND THE CROWD SURGED FORWARD
TO GET A FIRST LOOK AT A REAL,
LIVE AUTO--
37:16.866 --> 37:21.800 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
A MACHINE THAT 9/10 OF
THE PEOPLE OF LAKE COUNTY
HAD NEVER SEEN.
37:21.800 --> 37:26.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE MACHINE DROVE UP IN FRONT OF
THE HOTEL LAKEVIEW AND STOPPED.
37:26.733 --> 37:29.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE CHAUFFEUR INQUIRED
FOR A BLACKSMITH SHOP,
37:29.833 --> 37:33.366 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
HAVING HAD A MISHAP
COMING OVER THE ROUGH ROADS.
37:33.366 --> 37:35.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
LAKEVIEW COUNTY EXAMINER.
37:38.400 --> 37:39.766 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Narrator:
A LOCAL BLACKSMITH
37:39.766 --> 37:40.933 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
WAS PUT TO WORK
REPAIRING THE FRONT SPRING--
37:40.933 --> 37:45.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"NEVER SENSING," JACKSON SAID,
"THAT OUR STRANGE VEHICLE
37:45.566 --> 37:47.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WAS A SYMBOL OF DOOM
TO HIS PROFESSION."
37:51.633 --> 37:53.466 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
THEY LEFT THE BLACKSMITH'S SHOP
THE NEXT DAY
37:53.466 --> 37:56.133 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
AND SET OFF ONCE AGAIN.
37:56.133 --> 37:57.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE FRONT SPRING WAS
WORKING WELL NOW,
37:57.700 --> 38:02.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
BUT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY,
AN INNER TUBE BURST.
38:10.800 --> 38:14.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEY HAD NO CHOICE NOW
BUT TO RETURN TO LAKEVIEW
38:14.033 --> 38:16.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND WAIT FOR THE STAGE
TO REACH THEM
38:16.166 --> 38:19.000 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
WITH THE SUPPLIES THEY HAD
ORDERED FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
38:21.500 --> 38:23.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Hokanson: IN 1903,
38:23.266 --> 38:25.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
TRAVELING CROSS-COUNTRY
BY AUTOMOBILE...
38:25.466 --> 38:30.566 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
I DON'T THINK TODAY WE CAN
CONCEIVE OF JUST HOW MUCH
DIFFICULTY THAT PRESENTED.
38:30.566 --> 38:33.666 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THESE WERE VERY UNRELIABLE
AUTOMOBILES AT THIS TIME.
38:33.666 --> 38:35.600 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
EVEN IF YOU WENT 20 MILES,
38:35.600 --> 38:37.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
YOU COULD FIGURE ON
SOMETHING BREAKING.
38:37.900 --> 38:40.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
I THINK A $50 BET AT THAT TIME
38:40.966 --> 38:43.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SAYING THAT NO ONE WOULD MAKE IT
ACROSS THE STATES BY AUTOMOBILE
38:43.600 --> 38:47.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE
WAS PROBABLY A PRETTY SAFE BET.
38:47.200 --> 38:49.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Man as Jackson: THURSDAY:
38:49.166 --> 38:52.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
LOAFED ALL DAY AND KEPT
THE TELEGRAPH WIRE BUSY
38:52.533 --> 38:55.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
TO KEEP IN TOUCH
WITH THE TIRES.
38:55.233 --> 38:59.200 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
WE SPENT MOST OF THE DAY
IN MR. LAKE'S BICYCLE SHOP,
38:59.200 --> 39:04.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND CROCKER MADE $3.00
REPAIRING A COLUMBIAN BICYCLE.
39:04.033 --> 39:08.000 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
SOME OF THE PEOPLE HERE
HAVE NEVER SEEN A RAILROAD
39:08.000 --> 39:11.366 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
OR BEEN AWAY FROM THE PLACE
FOR MORE THAN 50 MILES.
39:11.366 --> 39:12.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
A LITTLE BOY ASKED HIS TEACHER
39:12.666 --> 39:17.033 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
IF HE COULD HAVE A HOLIDAY
TO SEE THE AUTO.
39:19.266 --> 39:21.600 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
Narrator:
LATE ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE 5,
39:21.600 --> 39:25.566 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
THE TIRES, BATTERIES,
AND CYCLOMETER FINALLY ARRIVED.
39:25.566 --> 39:27.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND BY EARLY THE NEXT MORNING,
39:27.566 --> 39:31.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON AND CROCKER
HAD EVERYTHING READY.
39:31.833 --> 39:36.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
AHEAD OF THEM LAY
NEARLY 300 MILES OF DESERT--
39:36.466 --> 39:37.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AN AREA THAT HAD
THE ADDED DISTINCTION
39:37.633 --> 39:39.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
OF BEING FARTHER FROM
A RAILROAD
39:39.566 --> 39:42.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAN ANY OTHER PLACE
IN THE UNITED STATES.
39:45.833 --> 39:48.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON HOPED TO CROSS IT
IN TWO DAYS
39:48.266 --> 39:49.933 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
AND REACH ONTARIO, OREGON,
39:49.933 --> 39:52.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WHERE HE HAD TELEGRAPHED AHEAD
FOR MORE TIRES AND SUPPLIES
39:52.600 --> 39:55.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TO BE WAITING FOR HIM
AT THE TRAIN STATION.
39:58.033 --> 40:00.533 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
Hokanson:
SOUTHEASTERN OREGON IN 1903
40:00.533 --> 40:03.500 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
IS NOT A PLACE YOU WANT TO HAVE
A MECHANICAL BREAKDOWN.
40:03.500 --> 40:04.866 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
IT STILL ISN'T.
40:04.866 --> 40:08.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FEWER THAN TWO PEOPLE
PER SQUARE MILE
40:08.033 --> 40:10.533 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5%
LIVE IN
SOUTHEASTERN OREGON TODAY.
40:10.533 --> 40:12.200 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
THAT USED TO BE
40:12.200 --> 40:15.700 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
THE CENSUS BUREAU'S
DEFINITION OF THE FRONTIER.
40:17.033 --> 40:21.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
IN 1990, CENSUS TAKERS
HAD A MECHANICAL PROBLEM
IN SOUTHEAST OREGON,
40:21.566 --> 40:25.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THEY WERE MISSING
FOR 4 DAYS...IN 1990.
40:28.433 --> 40:29.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Narrator: AT 6 A.M.,
40:29.700 --> 40:33.033 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THEY SET OFF FROM LAKEVIEW
FOR THEIR DASH ACROSS THE DESERT
40:33.033 --> 40:35.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
BUT IMMEDIATELY GOT CONFUSED
40:35.200 --> 40:37.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND WENT 19 MILES
DOWN THE WRONG ROAD
40:37.300 --> 40:40.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
BEFORE REALIZING IT.
40:40.666 --> 40:43.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
BY 8:00, THICK DUST
WAS ALREADY CLOGGING
40:43.866 --> 40:45.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ONE OF THE VERMONT'S
TWO CARBURETORS,
40:45.466 --> 40:48.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THEY HAD TO STOP
TO CLEAN IT.
40:52.633 --> 40:54.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THEN THE CAR WOULDN'T START.
40:54.933 --> 40:57.566 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
THE NEW BATTERIES
WERE DEFECTIVE.
40:57.566 --> 41:01.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
TIME AFTER TIME THEY STRUGGLED
TO GET THE ENGINE GOING,
41:01.466 --> 41:03.366 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
BUT WITH NO LUCK.
41:05.100 --> 41:08.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
HOURS TICKED BY.
41:08.266 --> 41:13.400 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
CROCKER TRIED EVERYTHING
HE COULD THINK OF TO COAX
THE VERMONT TO LIFE,
41:13.400 --> 41:16.200 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
BUT STILL
IT REFUSED TO START.
41:18.566 --> 41:23.600 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
NOONTIME CAME AND WENT,
THEN MOST OF THE AFTERNOON.
41:28.400 --> 41:31.600 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
Man as Jackson: ABOUT 4:00,
A COWPUNCHER WENT BY,
41:31.600 --> 41:36.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND WE CALLED HIM TO US
BY FIRING MY GUN.
41:36.000 --> 41:41.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
HE TIED HIS LASSOS TO OUR CAR
AND TOWED US.
41:44.600 --> 41:47.700 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
Narrator:
THE 20-HORSEPOWER AUTOMOBILE
41:47.700 --> 41:51.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
THAT PEOPLE HAD CALLED
"ONE OF THE WONDERS OF
THE CENTURY"
41:51.533 --> 41:55.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
NOW FOUND ITSELF
BEING SLOWLY DRAGGED
LIKE A STUBBORN CALF
41:55.533 --> 42:00.800 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
ACROSS THE DESERT FLOOR
BY A COWBOY AND HIS HORSE.
42:01.833 --> 42:06.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SOMEHOW, WORD OF JACKSON
AND CROCKER'S TROUBLES
42:06.233 --> 42:08.866 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
FILTERED BACK
TO THE LAKEVIEW EXAMINER.
42:08.866 --> 42:11.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"IF THEY MEET WITH
AS MANY ACCIDENTS
42:11.733 --> 42:14.900 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
AND ARE DELAYED AS LONG
AS THEY WERE IN ALTURAS
AND LAKEVIEW,"
42:14.900 --> 42:16.166 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
THE NEWSPAPER REPORTED,
42:16.166 --> 42:21.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
"IT WILL BE WINTER
BEFORE THEY SEE THE ATLANTIC."
42:21.100 --> 42:25.033 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
WHEN THEY FINALLY ARRIVED
AT THE NEAREST RANCH HOUSE,
42:25.033 --> 42:26.700 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
CROCKER AGAIN WENT TO WORK
42:26.700 --> 42:31.100 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
AND AT LAST
GOT THE VERMONT RUNNING.
42:31.100 --> 42:34.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THEY SET OFF IMMEDIATELY,
42:34.033 --> 42:35.500 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
FOLLOWING
WHAT JACKSON CALLED
42:35.500 --> 42:41.166 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
"THE DAMNEDEST, ROUGH,
ROCKY, SANDY ROAD
THIS SIDE OF HADES."
42:42.566 --> 42:47.000 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
14 LONG HOURS
AFTER LEAVING LAKEVIEW,
42:47.000 --> 42:49.800 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
THEY REACHED
A RANCH CALLED THE SL.
42:52.600 --> 42:53.633 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
Man as Jackson:
THE RANCH MAN KINDLY OFFERED
42:53.633 --> 42:55.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TO GIVE US HIS ATTIC
FOR THE NIGHT,
42:55.733 --> 42:58.833 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
SO WE CRAWLED
UP THE LADDER FOR BED.
42:58.833 --> 43:02.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HERE WE FOUND A PILE
OF RAGS IN ONE CORNER
43:02.233 --> 43:03.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WITH TWO BLANKETS
THAT EVERY SETTLER
43:03.666 --> 43:07.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
COMING THAT WAY SINCE '49
HAD SLEPT UNDER.
43:07.800 --> 43:12.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
IT IS NEEDLESS TO SAY
THAT WE EACH SAT ON A NAIL KEG
43:12.566 --> 43:15.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND WAITED FOR OUR HOST
AND HOSTESS TO GET TO SLEEP.
43:15.566 --> 43:18.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THIS WE SOON DISCOVERED
FROM THE SONOROUS SOUND
43:18.966 --> 43:20.600 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
THAT CAME UP
THROUGH THE PLANKS OF OUR FLOOR,
43:20.600 --> 43:24.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHEREUPON WE BOTH JUMPED
OUT OF THE WINDOW
43:24.400 --> 43:25.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AND HAD A VERY
COMFORTABLE NIGHT
43:25.633 --> 43:29.000 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
IN ONE OF THE HORSE STALLS
IN THE BARN.
43:31.433 --> 43:33.733 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
Narrator:
ON THE MORNING OF JUNE 7,
43:33.733 --> 43:37.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
JACKSON AND CROCKER RESUMED
THEIR JOURNEY ACROSS THE DESERT
43:37.233 --> 43:40.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND SOON ENCOUNTERED
HOMESTEADERS
43:40.200 --> 43:43.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
TRAVELING BY WAGON
TO SOME OF THE ONLY FREE LAND
43:43.233 --> 43:45.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
STILL AVAILABLE IN THE NATION.
43:46.900 --> 43:50.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Man as Jackson: I CANNOT SEE
WHY THEY'D COME TO THIS DESERT,
43:50.900 --> 43:53.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT THE OREGON AGENTS
SEEM TO BE ABLE TO PAINT THEM
43:53.500 --> 43:57.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
A MOST BEAUTIFUL PICTURE
OF THE HOMESTEADS HERE.
43:57.033 --> 44:01.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
ONE POOR FELLOW,
SEEING US COMING DOWN THE ROAD,
44:01.100 --> 44:04.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THOUGHT THE TRAIN
HAD GOT OFF THE TRACK,
44:04.033 --> 44:07.000 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
SO HE HASTILY
UNHARNESSED HIS HORSES,
44:07.000 --> 44:10.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND HE AND HIS WIFE
CRAWLED UNDER THE WAGON.
44:10.900 --> 44:15.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
OF COURSE, WHEN WE CAME ALONG,
WE FRIGHTENED THEIR HORSES,
44:15.000 --> 44:17.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND THEY RAN MANY MILES
ACROSS THE DESERT.
44:17.800 --> 44:20.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I WAS VERY SORRY
FOR THE POOR FELLOW,
44:20.666 --> 44:24.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT HE WAS AS GREEN
AS THEY MAKE THEM.
44:26.566 --> 44:28.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Narrator: THE WAGON ROADS
WERE SO ROUGH
44:28.566 --> 44:30.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAT JACKSON AND CROCKER
DECIDED INSTEAD
44:30.800 --> 44:33.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TO MAKE THEIR WAY THROUGH
THE SAGEBRUSH--
44:33.966 --> 44:37.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WHICH SOON STRIPPED OFF
THEIR NEW CYCLOMETER,
44:37.033 --> 44:40.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE
TO MEASURE DISTANCES.
44:40.300 --> 44:42.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AND SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY,
44:42.933 --> 44:46.366 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THE GASOLINE IN THEIR EXTRA
STORAGE TANK LEAKED OUT.
44:49.966 --> 44:52.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WHEN THEY REACHED
AN OUTPOST CALLED OKERMAN'S
44:52.433 --> 44:54.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
ON SILVER CREEK THAT EVENING,
44:54.366 --> 44:57.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
THEY HAD LESS THAN A QUART LEFT.
44:57.133 --> 44:59.033 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
IT WAS 26 MILES TO BURNS,
44:59.033 --> 45:03.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
THE NEAREST TOWN
WHERE GAS MIGHT BE AVAILABLE.
45:03.100 --> 45:04.466 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
WITH NO TELEPHONE AT OKERMAN'S,
45:04.466 --> 45:07.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON RENTED
THE OWNER'S BICYCLE
45:07.466 --> 45:09.633 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
AND SENT CROCKER OFF ON IT.
45:12.566 --> 45:16.233 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
CROCKER WAS GONE ALL NIGHT
AND HALF THE NEXT DAY--
45:16.233 --> 45:18.200 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
FORCED TO WALK
MOST OF THE DISTANCE
45:18.200 --> 45:20.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHEN HIS BICYCLE TIRE
WAS PUNCTURED--
45:20.766 --> 45:24.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FINALLY RETURNING WITH
4 GALLONS OF GASOLINE
45:24.066 --> 45:26.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AND 3 GALLONS OF BENZENE
45:26.000 --> 45:29.966 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
WHICH, JACKSON COMPLAINED,
COST HIM NEARLY $20.
45:35.033 --> 45:38.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FINALLY, ON THE AFTERNOON
OF JUNE 10,
45:38.466 --> 45:39.666 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
THEIR 19th DAY ON THE ROAD,
45:39.666 --> 45:43.000 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
THEY MOTORED
INTO ONTARIO, OREGON--
45:43.000 --> 45:47.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
A TOWN NEAR THE IDAHO BORDER
AND, MORE IMPORTANT,
45:47.200 --> 45:50.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
A STOP ON THE OREGON
SHORT LINE RAILROAD.
45:50.033 --> 45:55.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WAITING FOR THEM AT THE STATION
WERE A FULL SET OF NEW TIRES
45:55.033 --> 45:56.933 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
AND A NEW FRONT SPRING.
45:56.933 --> 46:01.000 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
"WHEN WE SAW THE RAILROAD,"
JACKSON WROTE HIS WIFE,
46:01.000 --> 46:04.833 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
"WE BOTH FELT LIKE
THROWING UP OUR HATS
AND GIVING 3 CHEERS."
46:24.700 --> 46:27.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man as Jackson:
THURSDAY, JUNE 11:
46:27.466 --> 46:28.766 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
MY DEAR SWIPES,
46:28.766 --> 46:32.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WE PUT ON OUR NEW SPRINGS
AND ONE NEW TIRE
46:32.000 --> 46:35.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND LEFT ONTARIO
A LITTLE AFTER 4:00.
46:35.033 --> 46:38.266 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
WE CROSSED THE SNAKE RIVER
BY A FERRY
46:38.266 --> 46:40.333 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AND ARE NOW IN IDAHO.
46:40.333 --> 46:43.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SHORTLY AFTER WE LEFT,
IT COMMENCED TO RAIN,
46:43.433 --> 46:45.233 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
AND FOR THE FIRST TIME,
46:45.233 --> 46:47.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WE HAD TO TAKE OUT
OUR RUBBER CLOTHING.
46:47.833 --> 46:50.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THIS MADE TRAVELING
VERY BAD.
46:50.233 --> 46:53.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WE FOUND A STREAM TO FORD
AND THOUGHT, OF COURSE,
46:53.566 --> 46:57.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WE COULD MAKE IT, AS WE HAD
MANY OTHERS, BY SHOOTING IT,
46:57.133 --> 46:58.533 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
BUT THE MUD WAS VERY DEEP,
46:58.533 --> 47:02.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND WE GOT STUCK IN
THE CENTER OF IT.
47:05.633 --> 47:08.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WE DID NOT ARRIVE IN CALDWELL
UNTIL 12:00 AT NIGHT,
47:08.900 --> 47:10.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AND THEN SOAKING WET.
47:10.700 --> 47:13.533 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
WE PUT UP
AT THE PACIFIC HOTEL,
47:13.533 --> 47:17.733 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
AND THE PEOPLE NOTICED
WE WERE CARRYING WITH US
A VERY STRONG ODOR.
47:17.733 --> 47:20.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WE HAD RUN OVER A SKUNK.
47:22.333 --> 47:25.600 align:left position:40% line:77% size:50%
Narrator:
BEFORE LEAVING CALDWELL, IDAHO,
THE NEXT MORNING,
47:25.600 --> 47:28.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON ADDED A THIRD MEMBER
TO THE EXPEDITION--
47:28.600 --> 47:34.700 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
A YOUNG BULLDOG NAMED BUD,
WHICH HE PURCHASED FOR $15.
47:34.700 --> 47:37.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
RIDING IN FRONT AND,
JUST LIKE HIS MASTER,
47:37.233 --> 47:39.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WEARING A PAIR OF GOGGLES
47:39.800 --> 47:42.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
TO KEEP THE DUST
FROM STINGING HIS EYES,
47:42.200 --> 47:44.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
BUD QUICKLY LEARNED
TO WATCH THE ROAD AHEAD
47:44.533 --> 47:47.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
JUST AS INTENTLY AS
CROCKER AND JACKSON,
47:47.366 --> 47:50.766 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
BRACING HIMSELF
FOR EVERY BUMP AND TURN.
47:52.133 --> 47:55.666 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
"BUD SOON BECAME AN ENTHUSIAST
FOR MOTORING," JACKSON BRAGGED,
47:55.666 --> 47:58.700 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
ADDING, "HE WAS
THE ONE MEMBER OF OUR TRIO
47:58.700 --> 48:03.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHO USED NO PROFANITY
ON THE ENTIRE TRIP."
48:08.966 --> 48:10.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
TAKING ROADS THAT PARALLELED
THE RAIL LINE,
48:10.866 --> 48:14.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON NOW PLANNED ON
MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME.
48:14.533 --> 48:19.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
BUT ONCE AGAIN
HE GOT SOME BAD ADVICE
48:19.833 --> 48:22.066 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
AND FOLLOWED
THE WRONG SET OF TRACKS,
48:22.066 --> 48:24.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHICH TOOK THEM 38 MILES
OUT OF THEIR WAY
48:24.300 --> 48:26.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
BEFORE THEY REALIZED IT.
48:39.233 --> 48:41.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
THEY MOTORED ON
TO THE TOWN OF HAILEY,
48:41.033 --> 48:44.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JUST SOUTH OF IDAHO'S
SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS.
48:44.533 --> 48:48.966 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
FROM THERE, JACKSON TELEGRAPHED
THE WINTON COMPANY IN CLEVELAND,
48:48.966 --> 48:53.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
PLACING AN ORDER FOR THEM TO
SHIP HIM A NEW AIR INTAKE PIPE,
48:53.266 --> 48:55.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SINCE THE ORIGINAL HAD DROPPED
OFF SOMEWHERE ALONG THE ROAD.
49:01.033 --> 49:05.066 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
IT WAS THE FIRST TIME
HE HAD CONTACTED
THE COMPANY DIRECTLY
49:05.066 --> 49:08.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND THE FIRST TIME
WINTON OFFICIALS BECAME AWARE
49:08.000 --> 49:12.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THAT ONE OF THEIR CARS WAS
TRYING TO CROSS THE CONTINENT.
49:16.000 --> 49:19.000 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Man as Jackson:
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 15:
49:19.000 --> 49:22.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WE STARTED ON WHAT THEY CALL
THE ZIGZAG ROAD,
49:22.033 --> 49:24.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WHICH RUNS ALONG
A GREAT LAVA BED.
49:24.700 --> 49:28.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE COUNTRY TOOK ON
A NEW CHARACTER--
49:28.666 --> 49:32.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SOARING HEIGHTS
OF DENUDED SLOPES,
49:32.533 --> 49:34.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
MONSTROUS CLIFFS,
49:34.066 --> 49:39.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND GIANT BOULDERS SCATTERED
IN MAGNIFICENT CONFUSION.
49:39.433 --> 49:41.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Narrator: THEIR ROUTE
TOOK THEM THROUGH
49:41.166 --> 49:44.400 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
WHAT IS NOW CRATERS OF THE MOON
NATIONAL MONUMENT--
49:44.400 --> 49:47.133 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
A DESOLATE, EERIE LANDSCAPE
49:47.133 --> 49:50.833 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
SHAPED AND RESHAPED BY A SERIES
OF VOLCANIC CATACLYSMS.
49:53.933 --> 49:55.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
60 YEARS BEFORE JACKSON,
49:55.966 --> 49:57.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WAGON TRAINS OF PIONEERS
HAD VENTURED THIS WAY
49:57.633 --> 50:00.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ON WHAT WAS CALLED
THE GOODALE'S CUTOFF
50:00.866 --> 50:02.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
ON THE OREGON TRAIL.
50:02.900 --> 50:05.066 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
60 YEARS AFTER JACKSON,
50:05.066 --> 50:06.600 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
ASTRONAUTS
WOULD BE BROUGHT THERE
50:06.600 --> 50:09.966 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
TO TRAIN FOR
THE FIRST LUNAR LANDING.
50:27.700 --> 50:31.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THROUGHOUT RURAL IDAHO,
JUST AS IN OREGON,
50:31.366 --> 50:33.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
PEOPLE SURROUNDED THE VERMONT,
ONE LOCAL NEWSPAPER REPORTED,
50:33.633 --> 50:37.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"AS FLIES SURROUND
A KEG OF MOLASSES,"
50:37.066 --> 50:39.433 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
AND THEY OFTEN GAVE
THE TRAVELERS HOME-COOKED MEALS
50:39.433 --> 50:45.733 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
IN EXCHANGE FOR SHORT RIDES
ON WHAT SOME OF THEM CALLED
THE GO-LIKE-HELL MACHINE.
50:47.933 --> 50:52.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
BY JUNE 16, THEY HAD PASSED
THROUGH THE TOWNS OF BLACKFOOT,
50:52.400 --> 50:55.500 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
POCATELLO, AND SQUAW CREEK,
50:55.500 --> 50:59.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND FOUND WHAT JACKSON CALLED
"AN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD ROAD"
50:59.333 --> 51:00.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THAT ALLOWED THEM TO OPEN UP
THE VERMONT'S THROTTLE
51:00.800 --> 51:05.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
AS THEY WHIRLED INTO
THE QUIET VILLAGE OF
SODA SPRINGS.
51:08.600 --> 51:11.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man: THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE
TO INVADE SODA SPRINGS
51:11.466 --> 51:13.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ROUNDED THE CORNER
AT WHITMAN'S STORE
51:13.466 --> 51:16.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
JUST AT SUNDOWN TUESDAY NIGHT,
51:16.000 --> 51:18.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND WITH A TOOT THAT SOUNDED
LIKE A YOUNG FOG HORN
51:18.900 --> 51:22.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHIZZED UP DILLON STREET
AND STOPPED AT THE IDANHA HOTEL.
51:22.666 --> 51:26.400 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
WHEN THE COW BOYS,
SHEEP HERDERS AND INDIANS
51:26.400 --> 51:28.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
RECOVERED FROM THEIR SURPRISE
51:28.933 --> 51:31.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEY CAUGHT THEIR BREATH
AND LET OUT A WHOOP
51:31.033 --> 51:33.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAT WAS TAKEN UP
AND PASSED ALONG
51:33.033 --> 51:35.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE ENTIRE LENGTH
OF THE BLOCK.
51:35.366 --> 51:40.900 align:left position:35% line:77% size:55%
THE INTEREST
IN ROULETTE AND TWENTY-ONE
WAS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED
51:40.900 --> 51:44.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
UNTIL THE STRANGE MACHINE
HAD BEEN THOROUGHLY EXAMINED
51:44.366 --> 51:48.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THE CURIOSITY OF
THE CROWD APPEASED.
51:48.166 --> 51:49.966 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THE IDANHA CHIEFTAIN.
51:52.366 --> 51:53.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Least Heat-Moon: WHEN JACKSON
WOULD COME INTO A TOWN
51:53.566 --> 51:57.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THE PEOPLE WOULD SEE
FOR THE FIRST TIME--
51:57.000 --> 52:00.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
WOULD LAY THEIR EYES
FOR THE FIRST TIME
ON AN AUTOMOBILE,
52:00.100 --> 52:03.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
A WHOLE NEW ERA HAS ARRIVED,
52:03.166 --> 52:05.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND A SENSE THAT--
EVEN THOUGH WHEN ERAS ARRIVE,
52:05.900 --> 52:08.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WE DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND THEM
OR KNOW WHERE THEY'RE TAKING US,
52:08.700 --> 52:12.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WE STILL HAVE THE SENSE
EVERYTHING HAS JUST CHANGED.
52:13.033 --> 52:14.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WHEN THIS HORSELESS CARRIAGE
COMES INTO TOWN,
52:14.933 --> 52:19.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THINGS ARE NOT GONNA BE THE SAME
EVER AGAIN IN THIS VILLAGE.
52:19.700 --> 52:22.566 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
Narrator: IN SODA SPRINGS,
52:22.566 --> 52:24.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON DISCOVERED THAT
YET ANOTHER PERSONAL ITEM
52:24.833 --> 52:27.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
HAD FALLEN OFF
THE BOUNCING CAR.
52:27.366 --> 52:32.400 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THIS TIME IT WAS HIS COAT,
WITH MOST OF HIS REMAINING CASH.
52:32.400 --> 52:35.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
HE TELEGRAPHED HIS WIFE
TO WIRE HIM $200
52:35.566 --> 52:39.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IN CARE OF THE WESTERN UNION
OFFICE IN CHEYENNE, WYOMING,
52:39.566 --> 52:44.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WHICH HE NOW FELT CONFIDENT
HE WOULD REACH IN A FEW DAYS.
52:45.933 --> 52:50.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ON JUNE 17, THEY RATTLED
OUT OF TOWN, HEADED FOR WYOMING,
52:50.033 --> 52:51.900 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
AND QUICKLY MADE 30 MILES--
52:51.900 --> 52:56.866 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
UNTIL THE HUB AND BEARINGS
ON A FRONT WHEEL GAVE OUT.
52:56.866 --> 52:59.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
IN MONTPELIER, IDAHO,
52:59.200 --> 53:02.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THEY BORROWED SOME BEARINGS FROM
A FARMER'S MOWING MACHINE
53:02.433 --> 53:05.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND ONCE AGAIN HAD TO RELY ON
A LOCAL BLACKSMITH
53:05.366 --> 53:08.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
TO INSTALL THEM.
53:08.200 --> 53:12.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THE DELAY COST THEM
THE REST OF THE DAY,
53:12.000 --> 53:16.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT JACKSON'S OPTIMISM
WAS UNDIMINISHED.
53:16.033 --> 53:18.100 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Man as Jackson:
DARLING SWIPES,
53:18.100 --> 53:23.566 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
JUST A LINE TO SAY THAT
EVERYTHING IS ALL RIGHT
WITH YOUR WANDERING BOY.
53:23.566 --> 53:27.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
I CAN'T WRITE MUCH,
AS WE SLEEP, THEN WORK.
53:27.766 --> 53:32.966 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
WHEN YOU HEAR THAT WE HAVE
REACHED RAWLINS, WYOMING,
53:32.966 --> 53:34.533 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
YOU WILL KNOW
THAT I CAN MAKE THE TRIP A GO,
53:34.533 --> 53:38.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SO BET ALL THE MONEY
YOU HAVE GOT ON IT.
53:39.633 --> 53:42.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WELL, OLD GIRLIE,
I CAN'T SAY ANY MORE.
53:42.300 --> 53:45.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL.
53:45.000 --> 53:48.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I SHALL MAKE UP FOR
LOST TIME.
53:48.500 --> 53:50.166 align:left position:42.5% line:89% size:47.5%
NELSON.
53:52.000 --> 53:53.533 align:left position:42.5% line:83% size:47.5%
Duncan:
IF EVER THERE WAS SOMEBODY
53:53.533 --> 53:57.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WHO SAW THE GLASS HALF-FULL
EVEN IF IT'S ONLY A QUARTER,
53:57.733 --> 54:02.066 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
IT'S GOTTA BE
HORATIO NELSON JACKSON.
54:02.066 --> 54:04.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
EVERY TIME--EVERY SINGLE TIME,
54:04.033 --> 54:06.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
IT SEEMS THAT SOMETHING
GOES WRONG WITH HIS CAR.
54:06.933 --> 54:11.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AT A TIME WHEN A RATIONAL PERSON
PROBABLY WOULD SAY,
54:11.600 --> 54:13.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"I'VE GONE FAR ENOUGH,
GAVE IT MY BEST SHOT.
54:13.433 --> 54:16.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I'LL CATCH THE TRAIN,
GO HOME,"
54:16.566 --> 54:20.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
INSTEAD HE WRITES TO HIS WIFE,
AND IT'S THIS SORT OF--
54:20.066 --> 54:21.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I DON'T THINK IT WAS
ALL BRAVADO
54:21.400 --> 54:24.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
OR JUST TRYING TO REASSURE HER
THAT EVERYTHING WAS OK.
54:24.066 --> 54:25.166 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
I THINK HE BELIEVED IT.
54:25.166 --> 54:27.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"IF I JUST GET OVER
THIS NEXT THING,
54:27.800 --> 54:32.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IT'S GONNA BE SMOOTH SAILING
FROM HERE ON OUT."
54:32.366 --> 54:35.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND HE SAID THAT TIME AND TIME
AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
54:35.666 --> 54:37.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
EVERY OBSTACLE
THAT HE ENCOUNTERED
54:37.666 --> 54:41.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WAS GOING TO BE
THE LAST OBSTACLE,
54:41.233 --> 54:44.600 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
AND, OF COURSE,
IT NEVER WAS.
54:48.733 --> 54:50.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Narrator: THINGS GOT
EVEN WORSE ON JUNE 20,
54:50.600 --> 54:53.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AFTER THEY HAD CROSSED
INTO WYOMING.
54:53.566 --> 54:55.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
A TREMENDOUS CLOUDBURST
STRUCK THE AREA
54:55.633 --> 54:59.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AFTER THEY PASSED THROUGH
THE TOWN OF GRANGER,
54:59.433 --> 55:02.733 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
FLOODING
AND WASHING OUT THE ROAD.
55:02.733 --> 55:07.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
THEY NOW RESORTED TO
TRYING TO NAVIGATE
ACROSS THE OPEN COUNTRY,
55:07.466 --> 55:11.533 align:left position:27.5% line:77% size:62.5%
CHANGING DIRECTION
EVERY TIME THEY ENCOUNTERED
A GULLY TOO DEEP TO CROSS--
55:11.533 --> 55:15.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AND GETTING HOPELESSLY LOST.
55:15.166 --> 55:18.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"WE ZIGZAGGED AS BEST WE COULD,"
JACKSON WROTE.
55:18.800 --> 55:21.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"SOMETIMES WE WENT NORTH
INSTEAD OF EAST;
55:21.266 --> 55:23.633 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
"AT OTHERS,
WE EVEN WENT NORTHWEST,
55:23.633 --> 55:27.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
BRINGING US BACK
WHERE WE HAD BEEN BEFORE."
55:27.933 --> 55:30.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEY STRUGGLED ALONG
FOR HOURS,
55:30.966 --> 55:35.566 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
ULTIMATELY GOING
69 MILES OUT OF THEIR WAY.
55:39.966 --> 55:42.400 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Man as Jackson:
COMING TO THE BANK OF A RIVER,
55:42.400 --> 55:44.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WE JUDGED FROM OUR MAPS
AND COMPASS
55:44.633 --> 55:46.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THAT IT WAS THE GREEN RIVER,
55:46.566 --> 55:50.400 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
AND WE RESOLVED TO
FOLLOW ITS DOWNWARD COURSE.
55:50.400 --> 55:54.533 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
WHEN NIGHT CAME ON,
WE MADE CAMP BESIDE THE CAR,
55:54.533 --> 55:58.100 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND HAVING LOST OUR COOKING
OUTFIT AND PROVISIONS
55:58.100 --> 56:01.166 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
AND IT BEING
AN UNINHABITED REGION,
56:01.166 --> 56:04.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WENT TO BED
WITHOUT ANY SUPPER.
56:05.633 --> 56:08.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Narrator: AS THEY WENT
TO SLEEP THAT NIGHT,
56:08.566 --> 56:12.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
JACKSON AND CROCKER HAD NO WAY
OF KNOWING THAT TWO OTHER MEN
56:12.833 --> 56:16.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HAD STARTED ON THEIR OWN
CAR TRIP ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
56:19.466 --> 56:24.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man: SAN FRANCISCO,
JUNE 20, 1903:
56:24.200 --> 56:27.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AT 2:00, TOM FETCH TOOK
HIS PLACE AT THE STEERING WHEEL.
56:27.500 --> 56:30.566 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
BESIDE HIM, I TOOK MY SEAT,
56:30.566 --> 56:33.866 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND THE COURSE WAS STEERED
TO THE FAMOUS CLIFF HOUSE
56:33.866 --> 56:35.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
OVERLOOKING
THE PACIFIC OCEAN,
56:35.933 --> 56:41.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THENCE TO DEPART ON THE LONG,
LAND-BOUND EXPEDITION.
56:41.533 --> 56:42.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
MARIUS KRARUP.
56:42.766 --> 56:46.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
Narrator: MARIUS KRARUP
AND TOM FETCH
56:46.366 --> 56:48.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
HAD BEEN CHOSEN BY
THE PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY
56:48.966 --> 56:52.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
TO DRIVE ONE OF THEIR BRAND-NEW
12-HORSEPOWER TOURING CARS
56:52.366 --> 56:54.700 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK.
56:54.700 --> 56:58.966 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
FETCH WAS ALREADY A TEST DRIVER
FOR THE COMPANY.
56:58.966 --> 57:02.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
KRARUP WAS A REPORTER
FOR AUTOMOBILE MAGAZINE,
57:02.433 --> 57:03.833 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
ALONG TO FILE REGULAR DISPATCHES
57:03.833 --> 57:08.100 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
ON WHAT PACKARD'S
ADVERTISING CHIEF ADMITTED WAS
57:08.100 --> 57:10.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"A SPECTACLE TO GAIN PUBLICITY
57:10.466 --> 57:12.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND TO PROVE THE CAR'S
DURABILITY."
57:12.266 --> 57:15.000 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
FOR 3 MONTHS,
57:15.000 --> 57:18.833 align:left position:35% line:77% size:55%
WELL BEFORE
HORATIO NELSON JACKSON
HAD EVER MADE HIS BET,
57:18.833 --> 57:23.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THE PACKARD COMPANY
HAD BEEN PLANNING THEIR TRIP.
57:23.600 --> 57:27.933 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
IT WAS EVERYTHING THAT
JACKSON'S EXPEDITION WAS NOT.
57:27.933 --> 57:30.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
EACH DAY'S ITINERARY
57:30.433 --> 57:32.866 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
ALONG THE MAIN ROUTE
OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
57:32.866 --> 57:34.600 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
HAD BEEN PREDETERMINED,
57:34.600 --> 57:37.433 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
WITH EXTRA SUPPLIES
PLACED AT STRATEGIC POINTS
57:37.433 --> 57:39.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND THE MEN'S PERSONAL LUGGAGE
57:39.433 --> 57:40.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SHIPPED AHEAD BY TRAIN
EACH MORNING
57:40.466 --> 57:43.333 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
TO THE NEXT STOPPING PLACE.
57:43.333 --> 57:45.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AN EXPERT MACHINIST
FROM THE PACKARD FACTORY
57:45.266 --> 57:47.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WAS EVEN SENT ALONG--
57:47.833 --> 57:48.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
RIDING IN THE CAR SOME DAYS,
57:48.633 --> 57:52.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TAKING THE TRAIN AHEAD
ON OTHERS.
57:52.366 --> 57:54.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
RIGHT FROM THE START,
57:54.666 --> 57:58.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FETCH AND KRARUP
MADE EXCELLENT TIME.
57:58.566 --> 58:00.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
BY THE FIFTH DAY,
58:00.600 --> 58:04.133 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
THEY HAD CROSSED THE SUMMITS OF
THE SIERRA NEVADAS AT LAKE TAHOE
58:04.133 --> 58:07.233 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
AND DESCENDED INTO CARSON CITY.
58:07.233 --> 58:10.300 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
LEARNING FROM
ALEXANDER WINTON'S DISASTER
58:10.300 --> 58:12.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WITH DEEP SAND
TWO YEARS EARLIER,
58:12.633 --> 58:16.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THEY CAME EQUIPPED WITH
TWO LONG STRIPS OF HEAVY CANVAS
58:16.066 --> 58:18.366 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
TO ROLL OUT ACROSS SOFT SPOTS
58:18.366 --> 58:21.533 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND PROVIDE ENOUGH TRACTION
TO KEEP FROM BOGGING DOWN.
58:21.533 --> 58:25.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEIR FIRST DAY ON
THE NEVADA DESERT,
58:25.400 --> 58:26.833 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
THEY COVERED MORE THAN 70 MILES
58:26.833 --> 58:29.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND FELT CONFIDENT ENOUGH
ABOUT THEIR PROGRESS
58:29.266 --> 58:30.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
TO TAKE THE NEXT DAY OFF,
58:30.933 --> 58:36.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SIMPLY TO WAIT FOR MORE FILM
FOR KRARUP'S CAMERA.
58:36.966 --> 58:38.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
EVERYWHERE THEY WENT,
58:38.266 --> 58:42.533 align:left position:25% line:77% size:65%
THEY IGNORED THE FACT
THAT JACKSON WAS ALREADY
ON THE ROAD
58:42.533 --> 58:47.400 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
AND CLAIMED TO BE
THE ONLY OFFICIAL TEAM
CROSSING THE CONTINENT.
58:58.266 --> 59:02.500 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
Wall: I THINK
THAT HE HAD NO IDEA
HOW HARD IT WOULD BE.
59:02.500 --> 59:06.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
I THINK THAT ONCE
HE HAD THE FOCUS
59:06.533 --> 59:07.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
OF ACCOMPLISHING
THIS DREAM,
59:07.733 --> 59:13.333 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80%
THAT WAS THE--
THAT WAS WHAT DROVE HIM,
59:13.333 --> 59:16.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WAS TO FINISH THE TRIP
AND DO IT,
59:16.200 --> 59:17.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND IT WASN'T THE BET.
59:17.800 --> 59:18.966 align:left position:47.5% line:89% size:42.5%
NO.
59:18.966 --> 59:22.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IT WASN'T GETTING
THE MONEY.
59:22.166 --> 59:23.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
IT WAS JUST DOING IT.
59:23.733 --> 59:26.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND IN THE LETTERS
THAT HE SENDS BACK,
59:26.933 --> 59:28.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
HE SAYS EVERY ONCE
IN A WHILE,
59:28.000 --> 59:32.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"I'M GOING TO DO THIS.
I'M GOING TO DO IT."
59:35.666 --> 59:38.633 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
Narrator: WHEN HE AWOKE
ON THE MORNING OF JUNE 21,
59:38.633 --> 59:41.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON WAS STILL LOST
IN WESTERN WYOMING,
59:41.833 --> 59:45.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND HE WOULD LATER DESCRIBE
HIS NIGHT CAMPED BY THE RIVER
59:45.000 --> 59:50.433 align:left position:32.5% line:77% size:57.5%
AS THE TIME
"THAT 30,000 MOSQUITOES DIED
ON THE BACK OF MY NECK."
59:53.433 --> 59:57.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
BUT HIS MORE IMMEDIATE CONCERN
WAS FOOD.
59:57.166 --> 01:00:01.000 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
IT HAD BEEN NEARLY 36 HOURS
SINCE THEY HAD LAST EATEN.
01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:03.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"AND AS WE TIGHTENED OUR BELTS,"
HE JOKED LATER,
01:00:03.966 --> 01:00:05.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"BOTH CROCKER AND I
01:00:05.466 --> 01:00:09.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WERE STEALING
SPECULATIVE GLANCES AT BUD."
01:00:12.666 --> 01:00:14.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
THEY FOLLOWED THE RIVER SOUTH,
01:00:14.600 --> 01:00:18.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HOPING IT WOULD LEAD THEM
TO A TOWN OR A HOMESTEAD.
01:00:19.933 --> 01:00:23.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
INSTEAD, THEY FINALLY
CAME UPON A LONELY SHEEPHERDER
01:00:23.933 --> 01:00:27.100 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
WHO SAID HE HADN'T SEEN ANOTHER
HUMAN BEING IN 3 WEEKS
01:00:27.100 --> 01:00:32.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND HAPPILY OFFERED THEM A FEAST
OF ROAST LAMB AND BOILED CORN--
01:00:32.666 --> 01:00:36.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"THE FINEST MEAL," JACKSON SAID,
"I EVER ATE."
01:00:38.466 --> 01:00:41.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
WHEN THE SHEEPHERDER
REFUSED TO BE PAID FOR THE FOOD,
01:00:41.333 --> 01:00:47.600 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
JACKSON INSISTED THAT
HE AT LEAST ACCEPT A RIFLE
AS A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION.
01:00:47.600 --> 01:00:50.766 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
"IF HE HAD ASKED US THEN
FOR MY CAR," JACKSON ADDED,
01:00:50.766 --> 01:00:53.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"I BELIEVE WE WOULD
HAVE GIVEN IT TO HIM."
01:01:01.266 --> 01:01:03.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
THE SHEEPHERDER
ALSO DIRECTED THEM
TO THE NEAREST ROAD,
01:01:03.666 --> 01:01:07.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND THEY WERE SOON
HEADING EAST ONCE MORE,
01:01:07.166 --> 01:01:10.800 align:left position:32.5% line:77% size:57.5%
ALONG THE ROUTE
THAT WOULD ONE DAY BECOME
THE FAMED LINCOLN HIGHWAY
01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:15.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND HALF A CENTURY AFTER THAT,
INTERSTATE 80--
01:01:15.066 --> 01:01:17.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE PRINCIPAL THOROUGHFARE
ACROSS THE NATION.
01:01:20.833 --> 01:01:23.666 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
IT PARALLELED THE
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD LINE
01:01:23.666 --> 01:01:25.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND TOOK THEM THROUGH
THE TOWNS OF BRYAN,
01:01:25.900 --> 01:01:28.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
GREEN RIVER,
AND ROCK SPRINGS.
01:01:28.366 --> 01:01:30.500 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
"A CIRCUS ARRIVED
IN ROCK SPRINGS THE SAME DAY,"
01:01:30.500 --> 01:01:32.633 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
JACKSON WROTE HIS WIFE,
01:01:32.633 --> 01:01:35.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"AND WE ARE TAKEN
FOR PART OF THE SHOW."
01:01:43.933 --> 01:01:46.866 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Man as Jackson:
MONDAY, JUNE 22:
01:01:46.866 --> 01:01:48.733 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
WE ARE SPENDING
MOST OF THE TIME
01:01:48.733 --> 01:01:50.700 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
TRYING TO GET OUT OF WATER
AND MUD HOLES.
01:01:50.700 --> 01:01:55.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WE BURIED OUR CAR
COMPLETELY IN ONE,
01:01:55.166 --> 01:01:58.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND AFTER WORKING HALF A DAY
TO GET IT OUT AGAIN,
01:01:58.133 --> 01:02:02.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
3 ITALIANS CAME ALONG,
EACH PACKING A HEAVY BAG.
01:02:02.566 --> 01:02:06.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I EXPLAINED TO THEM
THAT THE NEXT STOP
WAS 12 MILES AWAY
01:02:06.866 --> 01:02:07.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THAT IF THEY
WOULD HELP US OUT,
01:02:07.900 --> 01:02:11.466 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
I WOULD TAKE
THEIR BAGGAGE IN FOR THEM.
01:02:11.466 --> 01:02:13.233 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
THIS THEY CONSENTED TO DO,
01:02:13.233 --> 01:02:16.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND IN ABOUT AN HOUR,
WE WERE ON OUR WAY AGAIN.
01:02:16.733 --> 01:02:20.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AFTER DELIVERING THEIR LUGGAGE
TO THE SECTION BOSS,
01:02:20.266 --> 01:02:22.600 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
WE STARTED ON FOR BITTER CREEK,
01:02:22.600 --> 01:02:25.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
CROSSING TWO RIVERS
OVER THE RAILROAD BRIDGE.
01:02:25.500 --> 01:02:29.366 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
WE HAD NO TROUBLE
IN CROSSING RAILROAD BRIDGES.
01:02:29.366 --> 01:02:33.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WITH PRACTICE, BUMPING OVER
BRIDGE TIES IS NO GREAT TASK.
01:02:33.733 --> 01:02:35.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SOMETIMES, THOUGH,
WE HAD TO HUNT FOR 5 MILES
01:02:35.900 --> 01:02:41.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
TO FIND A PLACE WHERE WE COULD
GET OUR MACHINE ON THE TRACK.
01:02:43.366 --> 01:02:45.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Narrator: ON JUNE 23,
01:02:45.900 --> 01:02:49.033 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
EXACTLY ONE MONTH
AFTER LEAVING SAN FRANCISCO,
01:02:49.033 --> 01:02:50.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THEY PULLED INTO RAWLINS,
01:02:50.833 --> 01:02:53.633 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
THE SAME TOWN
JACKSON HAD ASSURED HIS WIFE
01:02:53.633 --> 01:02:57.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WOULD SIGNAL EASY GOING
FOR THE REST OF THE TRIP.
01:02:57.833 --> 01:03:01.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THEY MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO STAY
AT THE FERRIS HOTEL,
01:03:01.100 --> 01:03:03.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
LOOKING FORWARD TO
THEIR FIRST COMFORTABLE BED
01:03:03.400 --> 01:03:05.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
IN NEARLY A WEEK.
01:03:05.600 --> 01:03:07.933 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
BUT AS JACKSON AND CROCKER
DROVE THE SHORT DISTANCE
01:03:07.933 --> 01:03:10.800 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
TO PARK THEIR CAR
IN A LIVERY STABLE
DOWN THE STREET,
01:03:10.800 --> 01:03:15.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE VERMONT CAME TO A NOISY
AND SUDDEN STOP.
01:03:18.033 --> 01:03:22.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
THE STUD BOLTS HOLDING
THE CONNECTING ROD
TO THE CRANKSHAFT
01:03:22.133 --> 01:03:25.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
SHEARED OFF AND PIERCED
THROUGH THE CRANKCASE COVER--
01:03:25.600 --> 01:03:28.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE WORST MECHANICAL BREAKDOWN
TO DATE.
01:03:28.333 --> 01:03:30.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THIS WAS A PROBLEM
01:03:30.433 --> 01:03:31.333 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
THAT COULD NOT BE FIXED
01:03:31.333 --> 01:03:33.233 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
WITHOUT NEW PARTS
01:03:33.233 --> 01:03:35.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
FROM THE WINTON FACTORY IN OHIO.
01:03:35.600 --> 01:03:38.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON HAD NO CHOICE
BUT TO TELEGRAPH THE COMPANY
01:03:38.600 --> 01:03:41.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND WAIT FOR A TRAIN
TO DELIVER THEM.
01:03:41.633 --> 01:03:46.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FOR 5 DAYS, JACKSON
WAS STUCK IN RAWLINS,
01:03:46.933 --> 01:03:48.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
ARRANGING FOR HIS BANK
TO SEND HIM MORE MONEY,
01:03:48.466 --> 01:03:52.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WRITING LONG LETTERS
TO HIS WIFE,
01:03:52.500 --> 01:03:55.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WAITING IMPATIENTLY
FOR THE PARTS TO ARRIVE,
01:03:55.133 --> 01:03:56.266 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
AND LEARNING FOR THE FIRST TIME
01:03:56.266 --> 01:03:58.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THAT FETCH AND KRARUP
01:03:58.700 --> 01:04:01.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WERE ON THEIR WAY
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
01:04:01.666 --> 01:04:04.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
IN THEIR PACKARD.
01:04:04.133 --> 01:04:10.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Man as Jackson: FERRIS HOTEL,
RAWLINS, WYOMING, JUNE 28, 1903:
01:04:10.333 --> 01:04:12.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
MY DARLING SWIPES...
01:04:14.733 --> 01:04:19.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JUST A LINE TO SAY
THAT I AM STILL ALIVE.
01:04:19.333 --> 01:04:21.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
OUR THINGS ARRIVED THIS MORNING,
01:04:21.066 --> 01:04:24.566 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND WE HELD DIVINE SERVICES
IN THE BLACKSMITH'S SHOP.
01:04:24.566 --> 01:04:27.566 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WE SHALL TRY
AND GET AWAY TONIGHT.
01:04:27.566 --> 01:04:30.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
OUR CAR WILL NOW BE
AS GOOD AS NEW.
01:04:30.933 --> 01:04:36.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WE HAVE HAD HARD LUCK,
BUT I THINK IT ALL CAME AT ONCE.
01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:39.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WE SHALL NOW TRY
AND MAKE A RECORD TRIP.
01:04:39.700 --> 01:04:41.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THE WORST OF IT IS OVER,
01:04:41.366 --> 01:04:44.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AND EVERYONE
IS CONGRATULATING US.
01:04:44.366 --> 01:04:47.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THERE ARE OTHERS ON THE WAY,
TRYING TO BEAT US ACROSS,
01:04:47.666 --> 01:04:50.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT I FEEL CONFIDENT
THEY WILL GIVE IT UP.
01:04:56.066 --> 01:04:57.700 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
Narrator:
WITH THEIR CAR REPAIRED,
01:04:57.700 --> 01:05:00.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON AND CROCKER
HEADED FOR LARAMIE
01:05:00.033 --> 01:05:04.133 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
AND AT ELK MOUNTAIN
ENCOUNTERED THE STEEPEST
SLOPES OF THEIR JOURNEY--
01:05:04.133 --> 01:05:08.800 align:left position:25% line:77% size:65%
ROCKY TRAILS IN WHICH
THEY SOMETIMES HAD TO JACK UP
THE CAR TO GET OUT OF DEEP RUTS
01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:12.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
OR STOP TO PUSH BOULDERS
OUT OF THEIR PATH.
01:05:13.333 --> 01:05:15.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
IN OTHER PLACES,
01:05:15.400 --> 01:05:17.600 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
RANCHERS WERE USING THE ROAD AS
IRRIGATION DITCHES,
01:05:17.600 --> 01:05:20.533 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
SLOWING THE TRAVELERS DOWN
EVEN MORE
01:05:20.533 --> 01:05:21.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
ON THE SLIPPERY SURFACE.
01:05:21.866 --> 01:05:25.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
17 TIMES THE MEN RESORTED TO
THE BLOCK AND TACKLE
01:05:25.933 --> 01:05:27.566 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
TO KEEP MOVING.
01:05:27.566 --> 01:05:31.466 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
"I NEVER WORKED
SO HARD IN MY LIFE,"
JACKSON TOLD HIS WIFE,
01:05:31.466 --> 01:05:35.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
"BUT WE CAN SHOW
WHAT THE MACHINE
AND GOOD MEN CAN DO."
01:05:38.900 --> 01:05:41.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THEN, IN MEDICINE BOW,
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:43.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
THEY ENCOUNTERED
AN ENTERPRISING STOREKEEPER
01:05:43.633 --> 01:05:47.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHO HAD HEARD JUST HOW BADLY
THEY NEEDED GASOLINE
01:05:47.200 --> 01:05:49.933 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
AND SMELLED AN OPPORTUNITY.
01:05:51.500 --> 01:05:54.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man: DR. JACKSON SAID
THAT WHEN HE LEFT OREGON
01:05:54.700 --> 01:05:58.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE SHERIFF THERE WARNED HIM
TO BEWARE OF HOLDUPS,
01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:02.300 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
BUT THAT THE ONLY PLACE
HE BELIEVED HE HAD BEEN
HELD UP SO FAR
01:06:02.300 --> 01:06:03.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WAS AT A PLACE CALLED
MEDICINE BOW,
01:06:03.866 --> 01:06:12.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHERE THEY CHARGED HIM $5.25
FOR 5 GALLONS OF GASOLINE.
01:06:12.200 --> 01:06:14.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
LARAMIE BOOMERANG.
01:06:17.933 --> 01:06:21.233 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
Narrator: EAST OF LARAMIE,
THEY STRUCK THE BEST ROAD
01:06:21.233 --> 01:06:23.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THEY HAD TRAVELED SINCE
CALIFORNIA'S SACRAMENTO VALLEY,
01:06:23.600 --> 01:06:28.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THEY SPED ALONG ON IT
TO CHEYENNE.
01:06:28.300 --> 01:06:31.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THERE LARGE CROWDS
GATHERED TO GAWK AT
01:06:31.300 --> 01:06:34.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHAT THE WYOMING TRIBUNE
CALLED "A WHIZ WAGON,"
01:06:34.866 --> 01:06:35.866 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AND JACKSON WAS ELATED
01:06:35.866 --> 01:06:38.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
TO FIND LETTERS FROM BERTHA
WAITING FOR HIM.
01:06:38.866 --> 01:06:45.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Man as Jackson: JULY 1, 1903:
DARLING SWIPES,
01:06:45.266 --> 01:06:49.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I HAVE JUST SHOOK HANDS
AND TALKED TO 200 PEOPLE,
01:06:49.366 --> 01:06:50.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AND THE ONLY WAY
I COULD GET AWAY
01:06:50.733 --> 01:06:52.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WAS TO SAY THAT I HAD
A LITTLE WIFE AT HOME
01:06:52.666 --> 01:06:54.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAT WAS EXPECTING
A LETTER FROM ME.
01:06:56.900 --> 01:07:00.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW GLAD I WAS
TO GET YOUR 3 DEAR LETTERS.
01:07:00.466 --> 01:07:05.033 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THEY PUT NEW VIGOR INTO ME,
YOU DEAR GIRL.
01:07:05.033 --> 01:07:06.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WELL, THE WORST OF OUR TRIP
IS OVER,
01:07:06.933 --> 01:07:09.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND EVERYONE NOW SAYS
THAT WE CAN MAKE IT,
01:07:09.733 --> 01:07:13.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
AND ALTHOUGH THERE
ARE OTHERS ON THE WAY,
WE WILL GET THERE FIRST.
01:07:13.433 --> 01:07:18.800 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
JUST WATCH ME NOW.
NELLIE.
01:07:27.700 --> 01:07:30.033 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
Narrator: BUT LESS THAN AN HOUR
OUT OF CHEYENNE,
01:07:30.033 --> 01:07:33.666 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THE STUD BOLTS ON THE OTHER
CONNECTING ROD BROKE OFF,
01:07:33.666 --> 01:07:37.666 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AND THE VERMONT
GROUND TO A DEAD STOP.
01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:44.266 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
A RAILROAD GRADING CREW
TOWED THE CAR TO THEIR
ISOLATED CAMP
01:07:44.266 --> 01:07:47.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NEAR THE SMALL STATION
OF ARCHER.
01:07:47.533 --> 01:07:50.900 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
CROCKER STRIPPED THE FRONT SEAT
OFF THE CAR
01:07:50.900 --> 01:07:52.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
TO GET AT THE ENGINE
01:07:52.533 --> 01:07:54.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WHILE JACKSON WIRED
THE WINTON FACTORY ONCE MORE
01:07:54.366 --> 01:07:57.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
FOR REPLACEMENT PARTS
01:07:57.166 --> 01:08:00.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND ONCE MORE SETTLED IN TO WAIT
FOR THEIR DELIVERY BY TRAIN,
01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:04.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
DAY AFTER AGONIZING DAY.
01:08:07.133 --> 01:08:10.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man as Jackson:
SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1903:
01:08:10.300 --> 01:08:14.666 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
MY DARLING SWIPES...
01:08:14.666 --> 01:08:19.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WE EXPECTED OUR EXPRESS ON #5
AT 3:00 THIS AFTERNOON,
01:08:19.100 --> 01:08:23.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
BUT A MESSAGE THIS NOON
FROM THE TRAIN AGENT
SAYS THAT HE HAS NOTHING,
01:08:23.200 --> 01:08:26.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
SO IT IS ANOTHER DAY.
01:08:26.266 --> 01:08:28.833 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
IT HAS BEEN
AN AWFUL LONG TIME TO US,
01:08:28.833 --> 01:08:31.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND I SHALL BE MIGHTY GLAD
WHEN WE ARE ON THE WAY AGAIN.
01:08:31.766 --> 01:08:34.100 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
AND UNLESS ANOTHER
SERIOUS ACCIDENT HAPPENS,
01:08:34.100 --> 01:08:38.533 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE
TO MAKE GOOD TIME
ACROSS THESE PLAINS.
01:08:38.533 --> 01:08:43.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WELL, TOMORROW
IS OUR ANNIVERSARY,
01:08:43.733 --> 01:08:45.933 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
AND I WISH I COULD BE WITH YOU.
01:08:45.933 --> 01:08:49.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I WANT TO CELEBRATE HERE
BY GETTING MY NEW PARTS.
01:08:49.133 --> 01:08:54.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
I SHALL THINK OF YOU
A GOOD DEAL TOMORROW,
AS I ALWAYS DO.
01:08:57.633 --> 01:09:00.833 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
YOU ARE THE BEST LITTLE WIFE
IN THE WORLD,
01:09:00.833 --> 01:09:03.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND I'M A MIGHTY LUCKY FELLOW
TO HAVE YOU.
01:09:03.500 --> 01:09:06.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
YES, OLD GIRL,
I APPRECIATE IT,
01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:11.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
IF SOMETIMES I HAVE A QUEER WAY
OF SHOWING IT.
01:09:11.333 --> 01:09:12.800 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
4 YEARS TOMORROW--
01:09:12.800 --> 01:09:16.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEY HAVE BEEN VERY SHORT
AND DEAR ONES TO ME.
01:09:16.133 --> 01:09:19.866 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING IN
THE WORLD TO MAKE ME HAPPY.
01:09:19.866 --> 01:09:26.500 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
I SHALL JUST TEAR UP THE GROUND
UNTIL I CAN BE WITH YOU.
01:09:26.500 --> 01:09:30.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WITH LOTS OF LOVE TO ALL,
I AM YOURS.
01:09:30.066 --> 01:09:32.000 align:left position:42.5% line:89% size:47.5%
NELSON.
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:36.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
P.S.: I AM NOT MUCH OF A HAND
TO WRITE LOVE LETTERS--
01:09:36.333 --> 01:09:39.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
YOU DIDN'T GIVE ME A CHANCE
FOR MUCH PRACTICE--
01:09:39.766 --> 01:09:42.433 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
BUT YOU KNOW, DEAR, HOW I FEEL.
01:09:45.700 --> 01:09:49.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
JULY 6, ARCHER, WYOMING:
01:09:49.400 --> 01:09:51.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
PARTS DID NOT COME TODAY.
01:09:55.833 --> 01:10:00.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Narrator: JACKSON HAD NOW BEEN
ON THE ROAD FOR 42 DAYS,
01:10:00.233 --> 01:10:04.133 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
NEARLY HALF OF THE 90 DAYS
SPECIFIED IN HIS WAGER,
01:10:04.133 --> 01:10:07.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
BUT HE WAS ONLY 1/3
OF THE WAY TO NEW YORK,
01:10:07.133 --> 01:10:11.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND HIS CAR NOW SEEMED TO BE
BREAKING DOWN AT EVERY TURN.
01:10:11.000 --> 01:10:14.500 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
EVEN WORSE, WITH TOM FETCH
AND MARIUS KRARUP
01:10:14.500 --> 01:10:17.700 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
AND THEIR PACKARD
FOLLOWING A MORE DIRECT ROUTE,
01:10:17.700 --> 01:10:21.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
JACKSON WAS CONCERNED
THAT THEY MIGHT BE
CATCHING UP WITH HIM.
01:10:23.133 --> 01:10:25.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
THEY WERE.
01:10:30.033 --> 01:10:33.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FETCH AND KRARUP HAD BEEN
CONSTANTLY ON THE MOVE,
01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:35.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AVERAGING TWICE AS MANY MILES
A DAY AS JACKSON
01:10:35.333 --> 01:10:38.000 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND RUNNING RIGHT ON SCHEDULE.
01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:43.166 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
ON JULY 3, THEY COMPLETED
THEIR SECOND WEEK OF TRAVEL
01:10:43.166 --> 01:10:47.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
BY COVERING 114 MILES
AND REACHING PROMONTORY, UTAH,
01:10:47.833 --> 01:10:49.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WHERE THE GOLDEN SPIKE
01:10:49.166 --> 01:10:50.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
JOINING THE FIRST
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
01:10:50.166 --> 01:10:53.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
HAD BEEN DRIVEN IN 1869.
01:10:55.866 --> 01:10:58.800 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
AND ON JULY 4,
THEY DROVE ANOTHER 106 MILES
01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:03.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND PULLED INTO SALT LAKE CITY
TO A WAVE OF PUBLICITY--
01:11:03.500 --> 01:11:08.266 align:left position:32.5% line:77% size:57.5%
PRECISELY WHAT
THE COMPANY'S ADVERTISING
EXECUTIVE HAD PLANNED.
01:11:08.266 --> 01:11:10.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AT THE RATE THEY WERE GOING,
01:11:10.266 --> 01:11:12.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DESPITE STARTING
NEARLY A MONTH LATER,
01:11:12.200 --> 01:11:18.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
FETCH AND KRARUP WERE NOW
ONLY 10 DAYS BEHIND JACKSON
AND CROCKER.
01:11:18.200 --> 01:11:20.766 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
THEN ON JULY 6,
01:11:20.766 --> 01:11:25.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
YET ANOTHER AUTOMOBILE SET OFF
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
01:11:25.400 --> 01:11:28.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
LESTER WHITMAN
AND EUGENE HAMMOND,
01:11:28.400 --> 01:11:31.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TWO EXPERIENCED DRIVERS
AND AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS,
01:11:31.300 --> 01:11:34.266 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
WERE DRIVING
A 1903 OLDSMOBILE RUNABOUT:
01:11:34.266 --> 01:11:38.100 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE
TO BE MADE ON AN ASSEMBLY LINE
01:11:38.100 --> 01:11:43.166 align:left position:30% line:77% size:60%
AND THE FIRST
THAT WOULD OUTSELL ELECTRIC-
AND STEAM-POWERED MACHINES.
01:11:43.166 --> 01:11:48.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
IT WAS SMALLER AND CHEAPER
THAN THE TWO BIG TOURING CARS
THAT WERE ALREADY ON THE ROAD,
01:11:48.733 --> 01:11:50.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
BUT LIKE THE PACKARD EXPEDITION,
01:11:50.533 --> 01:11:54.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THIS ONE WAS ALSO UNDERWRITTEN
BY THE MANUFACTURER.
01:11:54.666 --> 01:11:58.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FOLLOWING THE SAME ROUTE
AS FETCH AND KRARUP,
01:11:58.766 --> 01:12:00.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHITMAN AND HAMMOND
QUICKLY CROSSED THE SIERRAS
01:12:00.666 --> 01:12:04.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND WERE WELL INTO NEVADA
WITHIN A WEEK'S TIME.
01:12:07.133 --> 01:12:12.666 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
THERE WERE NOW 3 AUTOMOBILES
RACING TO BECOME THE FIRST
TO CROSS THE CONTINENT.
01:12:28.400 --> 01:12:32.433 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Man as Jackson:
JULY 7: DARLING SWIPES,
01:12:32.433 --> 01:12:35.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
PARTS ARRIVED;
LEAVE THIS NOON.
01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:38.833 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
NOW IN GOOD SHAPE.
HOPE TO BE WITH YOU SOON.
01:12:59.033 --> 01:13:04.400 align:left position:40% line:77% size:50%
Narrator:
JACKSON AND CROCKER AND BUD WERE
FINALLY ON THEIR WAY ONCE AGAIN.
01:13:16.866 --> 01:13:21.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THEY ENTERED NEBRASKA
AND AT THE PLATTE RIVER
01:13:21.066 --> 01:13:23.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ONCE MORE BEGAN FOLLOWING
THE ROUTE
01:13:23.066 --> 01:13:24.500 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
BLAZED BY
THE PIONEER WAGON TRAINS
01:13:24.500 --> 01:13:27.766 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
HEADING FOR
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA
01:13:27.766 --> 01:13:28.766 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
HALF A CENTURY EARLIER.
01:14:15.233 --> 01:14:18.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Duncan: IF YOU'RE OUT
IN THE WEST, EVEN TODAY,
01:14:18.233 --> 01:14:20.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
YOU CAN SEE SUCH GREAT HORIZONS,
01:14:20.233 --> 01:14:22.833 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
BUT PART OF
THOSE HORIZONS SOMETIMES
01:14:22.833 --> 01:14:26.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ARE SOME OF THE FIERCEST
FRIGHTENING STORMS
01:14:26.933 --> 01:14:28.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
YOU CAN IMAGINE.
01:14:31.566 --> 01:14:35.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THERE IN THE OPEN,
IN AN OPEN-SEATED CAR,
01:14:35.500 --> 01:14:39.166 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND YOU SEE OFF BEHIND YOU
OR OFF IN THE DISTANCE
01:14:39.166 --> 01:14:43.266 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
OR COMING RIGHT AT YOU
ONE OF THESE MOTHERS OF
ALL STORMS,
01:14:43.266 --> 01:14:47.433 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
IT'S GOT TO BE
A FRIGHTENING PROSPECT.
01:14:47.433 --> 01:14:49.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
THE RAIN STARTS PELTING YOU,
01:14:49.800 --> 01:14:51.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AND OF COURSE
YOU'RE ON A BAD ROAD, ANYWAY,
01:14:51.333 --> 01:14:52.333 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
SO THERE'S NO PLACE TO GO.
01:14:52.333 --> 01:14:53.766 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
THERE'S NO PLACE TO HIDE.
01:14:53.766 --> 01:14:57.866 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
YOU'VE JUST GOT
TO TRY TO SLOG IT ON
A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
01:15:02.400 --> 01:15:07.000 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
EVEN AN OPTIMIST LIKE
HORATIO NELSON JACKSON
MUST HAVE FELT...
01:15:07.000 --> 01:15:10.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
A LITTLE BIT SCARED
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE
AND DISCOURAGED
01:15:10.900 --> 01:15:13.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
EVERY TIME HE LOOKED UP
INTO THE HORIZON
01:15:13.266 --> 01:15:16.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND SAW YET ANOTHER STORM
COMING OVER.
01:15:23.733 --> 01:15:25.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Man as Jackson:
WHEN WE CROSSED INTO NEBRASKA,
01:15:25.866 --> 01:15:29.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE MUD BECOME WORSE
INSTEAD OF BETTER.
01:15:31.766 --> 01:15:34.500 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
HERE, IT RAINED CONSTANTLY.
01:15:34.500 --> 01:15:37.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
THE MUD WAS A CEMENTLIKE MASS
01:15:37.433 --> 01:15:40.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THAT STUCK TO THINGS
LIKE THE BEST PORTLAND,
01:15:40.166 --> 01:15:42.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND IT SEEMED TO HAVE NO BOTTOM.
01:15:44.433 --> 01:15:47.500 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
THE CAR SANK IN IT
CLEAR UP TO THE BATTERY BOXES--
01:15:47.500 --> 01:15:50.466 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
THAT IS NEARLY
TO THE TOPS OF THE WHEELS--
01:15:50.466 --> 01:15:52.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THEN WE WOULD GET OUT
THE BLOCK AND TACKLE
01:15:52.700 --> 01:15:53.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
AND HAUL IT OUT.
01:15:53.700 --> 01:15:59.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ONE DAY WE REPEATED
THIS PERFORMANCE 18 TIMES.
01:15:59.333 --> 01:16:04.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THESE PLACES WERE LOCALLY TERMED
"BUFFALO WALLOWS."
01:16:04.766 --> 01:16:06.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WE WALLOWED IN THEM,
01:16:06.166 --> 01:16:09.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SOMETIMES TEARING DOWN
A SECTION OF FENCE
01:16:09.600 --> 01:16:13.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND PUT THEM UNDER THE WHEELS
TO MAKE A FOUNDATION.
01:16:28.100 --> 01:16:31.933 align:left position:40% line:77% size:50%
Narrator:
THEY DETOURED NORTH FOR A WHILE,
AWAY FROM THE PLATTE RIVER,
01:16:31.933 --> 01:16:35.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
PICKING UP SPEED AS THEY FINALLY
FOUND BETTER AND DRIER ROADS.
01:16:39.300 --> 01:16:41.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Duncan: AS HE MOVED EAST,
01:16:41.000 --> 01:16:46.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE CAR BECAME A SENSATION LESS
BECAUSE IT WAS TOTALLY NEW--
01:16:46.500 --> 01:16:49.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AS IT HAD BEEN FARTHER WEST--
01:16:49.166 --> 01:16:51.166 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
BUT IT BECAME
IN A CERTAIN EXTENT
01:16:51.166 --> 01:16:52.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
A GREATER SENSATION,
01:16:52.566 --> 01:16:55.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
BECAUSE NOW THERE WAS THE NEWS
01:16:55.766 --> 01:17:00.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAT THIS MIGHT BE
HISTORY IN THE MAKING.
01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:06.033 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
CROCKER AND JACKSON
AND PARTICULARLY BUD
BECAME CELEBRITIES,
01:17:06.033 --> 01:17:07.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BECAUSE PEOPLE WANTED TO
COME OUT NOW
01:17:07.833 --> 01:17:13.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND SEE WHETHER THIS GUY
COULD MAKE IT ACROSS OR NOT.
01:17:15.333 --> 01:17:17.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
PEOPLE KNEW THAT THERE
WERE TWO OTHER CARS ON THE ROAD
01:17:17.766 --> 01:17:23.266 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
AND THAT THIS
WAS SOMETHING OF A RACE.
01:17:23.266 --> 01:17:24.966 align:left position:45% line:83% size:45%
Narrator:
THEY RUSHED THROUGH KEARNEY,
01:17:24.966 --> 01:17:28.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
GRAND ISLAND, COLUMBUS,
AND DOZENS OF SMALLER TOWNS,
01:17:28.933 --> 01:17:32.800 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
AND AS THE TELEGRAPH LINES
ANNOUNCED THEIR IMPENDING
ARRIVAL IN EACH ONE,
01:17:32.800 --> 01:17:36.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
PEOPLE FLOCKED TO SEE JACKSON
AND HIS MACHINE.
01:17:38.200 --> 01:17:40.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DISAPPOINTMENT WAS KEEN,
ONE NEWSPAPER REPORTED,
01:17:40.466 --> 01:17:43.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
WHEN HE TORE THROUGH THE TOWN
01:17:43.233 --> 01:17:46.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AT A 40-MILE-AN-HOUR CLIP
WITHOUT STOPPING.
01:17:58.633 --> 01:18:00.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
IN A FINAL LONG DAY IN NEBRASKA,
01:18:00.966 --> 01:18:04.700 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
THEY COVERED
AN ASTONISHING 250 MILES,
01:18:04.700 --> 01:18:05.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
DESPITE BREAKING A FRONT AXLE
01:18:05.900 --> 01:18:10.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAT HAD TO BE WELDED BY
YET ANOTHER BLACKSMITH.
01:18:12.333 --> 01:18:14.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND ON THE MORNING OF JULY 12,
01:18:14.100 --> 01:18:16.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEY ROLLED INTO OMAHA
NEAR THE PLACE
01:18:16.866 --> 01:18:19.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHERE LEWIS AND CLARK
HAD HELD THEIR FIRST MEETING
01:18:19.433 --> 01:18:23.533 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
WITH A HANDFUL OF
AMERICAN INDIANS
A CENTURY EARLIER.
01:18:23.533 --> 01:18:26.100 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
NOW A HUGE CROWD TURNED OUT
01:18:26.100 --> 01:18:28.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TO GREET JACKSON
AND HIS EXPEDITION.
01:18:28.800 --> 01:18:33.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
Man: THE OMAHA MORNING
WORLD HERALD:
01:18:33.666 --> 01:18:36.466 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
THE EXPERIENCES
AND ADVENTURES OF THE TRIP
01:18:36.466 --> 01:18:39.800 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
HAVE BEEN OF
AN EXCITING NATURE,
01:18:39.800 --> 01:18:41.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
WHICH MAY BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD
01:18:41.533 --> 01:18:44.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
WHEN IT IS KNOWN THAT
HE TRAVELED 3,000 MILES
01:18:44.500 --> 01:18:48.366 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
THROUGH A COUNTRY
NEVER BEFORE TOUCHED
BY AN AUTOMOBILE.
01:18:48.366 --> 01:18:52.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
BEFORE LEAVING, THE MACHINE
WILL HAVE A THOROUGH OVERHAULING
01:18:52.400 --> 01:18:54.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND BE PUT INTO CONDITION
FOR FAST RUNNING.
01:18:54.700 --> 01:19:00.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
INCIDENTALLY, HALF A TON
OF NEBRASKA CLAY
01:19:00.266 --> 01:19:03.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHICH IT HAS GATHERED
DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS
01:19:03.166 --> 01:19:04.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
WILL BE REMOVED.
01:19:07.700 --> 01:19:11.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Narrator: THE SPREADING NEWS
OF JACKSON'S QUEST,
01:19:11.200 --> 01:19:12.366 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
AS WELL AS
THE INTENSE PUBLICITY
01:19:12.366 --> 01:19:15.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SURROUNDING BOTH THE PACKARD
AND THE OLDSMOBILE JOURNEYS,
01:19:15.833 --> 01:19:18.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
HAD NOT ONLY AROUSED
GREATER PUBLIC INTEREST
01:19:18.233 --> 01:19:19.933 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
IN THE VERMONT'S PROGRESS,
01:19:19.933 --> 01:19:24.266 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
IT HAD SPURRED
THE WINTON COMPANY INTO ACTION.
01:19:24.266 --> 01:19:26.300 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Man as Jackson:
DARLING SWIPES...
01:19:26.300 --> 01:19:28.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
ON OUR ARRIVAL HERE,
01:19:28.600 --> 01:19:31.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
I WAS MUCH SURPRISED
TO FIND A MAN FROM THE FACTORY
01:19:31.466 --> 01:19:34.000 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
WITH A LETTER CONGRATULATING ME
01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:37.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND STATING THAT THEY
WERE WILLING TO PLACE MEN
01:19:37.066 --> 01:19:40.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
ALONG THE LINE WITH SUPPLIES
AT THEIR EXPENSE.
01:19:40.600 --> 01:19:45.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
Narrator: THE WINTON COMPANY
NOW OFFERED TO PROVIDE JACKSON
WITH THE SAME FINANCIAL SUPPORT
01:19:45.300 --> 01:19:50.400 align:left position:27.5% line:77% size:62.5%
THE OLDSMOBILE
AND PACKARD COMPANIES WERE
GIVING THE OTHER EXPEDITIONS,
01:19:50.400 --> 01:19:53.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT IT WOULD ALSO MEAN
THE WINTON COMPANY
01:19:53.333 --> 01:19:56.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WOULD BE IN CHARGE OF
THE REST OF THE TRIP.
01:19:56.666 --> 01:19:59.133 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
THAT EVENING,
IN HIS LETTER TO BERTHA,
01:19:59.133 --> 01:20:02.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
JACKSON REVEALED HIS ANSWER.
01:20:02.833 --> 01:20:04.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man as Jackson:
I HAVE INFORMED THEM
01:20:04.333 --> 01:20:08.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THAT WE HAVE MADE THE TRIP
SO FAR WITHOUT THEIR ASSISTANCE
01:20:08.900 --> 01:20:10.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AND THOUGHT THAT PERHAPS
01:20:10.233 --> 01:20:14.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WE TWO GREENHORNS
COULD DO THE REST OF IT.
01:20:14.533 --> 01:20:16.233 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Narrator: "WINTON'S MAN,"
01:20:16.233 --> 01:20:18.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HE ADDED IN A TELEGRAM
THE NEXT MORNING
01:20:18.233 --> 01:20:21.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AS HE PULLED OUT OF TOWN
WITH CROCKER AND BUD,
01:20:21.100 --> 01:20:24.266 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
"CANNOT UNDERSTAND
HOW WE MADE IT."
01:20:29.166 --> 01:20:30.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
FOLLOWING THE ROUTE
01:20:30.433 --> 01:20:32.300 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
OF THE CHICAGO
AND NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD,
01:20:32.300 --> 01:20:33.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEY SPED ACROSS IOWA
AND WESTERN ILLINOIS
01:20:33.833 --> 01:20:36.800 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
IN SUCH A RUSH
THAT JACKSON DIDN'T EVEN STOP
01:20:36.800 --> 01:20:40.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
TO SEND TELEGRAMS TO BERTHA
ABOUT THEIR PROGRESS.
01:20:43.366 --> 01:20:44.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
EVERYWHERE THEY WENT,
01:20:44.600 --> 01:20:47.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
PEOPLE TURNED OUT
TO CHEER THEM ON.
01:21:13.966 --> 01:21:17.400 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
4 DAYS AFTER LEAVING OMAHA,
THEY PULLED INTO CHICAGO,
01:21:17.400 --> 01:21:19.666 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
WHERE JACKSON
PROUDLY TOLD REPORTERS,
01:21:19.666 --> 01:21:22.033 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
"WE HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION
THAT WE CAN RUN OUR CAR
01:21:22.033 --> 01:21:26.866 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
"OVER ANY ROAD THAT A MAN
CAN TAKE A TEAM OF HORSES
AND A WAGON,
01:21:26.866 --> 01:21:29.866 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
PROVIDING WE CAN GET TRACTION."
01:21:29.866 --> 01:21:33.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"WE WERE HONORED WITH RECEPTIONS
BY CITY OFFICIALS,
01:21:33.500 --> 01:21:35.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"AUTOMOBILE DEALERS,
01:21:35.200 --> 01:21:37.666 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
AND HERO WORSHIPERS GENERALLY,"
JACKSON WROTE,
01:21:37.666 --> 01:21:41.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"BUT THE ONE THOUGHT
IN OUR MINDS WAS TO FINISH."
01:21:43.900 --> 01:21:44.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
THE NEXT DAY,
01:21:44.933 --> 01:21:47.666 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
A CARAVAN OF
AUTOMOBILE ENTHUSIASTS
01:21:47.666 --> 01:21:49.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
ESCORTED THEM OUT OF CHICAGO--
01:21:49.766 --> 01:21:52.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ALTHOUGH THEIR DEPARTURE
WAS DELAYED A FEW HOURS
01:21:52.300 --> 01:21:54.500 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
UNTIL THEY COULD FIND BUD,
01:21:54.500 --> 01:21:56.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHO HAD WANDERED OFF
IN THE CROWD.
01:21:56.866 --> 01:22:00.300 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THEY RUSHED THROUGH HAMMOND
AND SOUTH BEND, INDIANA,
01:22:00.300 --> 01:22:03.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THEN TOLEDO, OHIO,
01:22:03.400 --> 01:22:07.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND ON THE 20th OF JULY--
THE 59th DAY OF THEIR JOURNEY--
01:22:07.566 --> 01:22:09.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEY WERE PERSONALLY
GREETED BY
01:22:09.433 --> 01:22:11.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE WINTON COMPANY'S
ADVERTISING MANAGER--
01:22:11.300 --> 01:22:12.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
CHARLES B. SHANKS--
01:22:12.833 --> 01:22:14.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHO HAD ACCOMPANIED
ALEXANDER WINTON
01:22:14.900 --> 01:22:17.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ON HIS ABORTED TRIP
IN 1901.
01:22:19.366 --> 01:22:24.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THEN A CONVOY OF CARS LED THEM
TRIUMPHANTLY INTO CLEVELAND.
01:22:27.033 --> 01:22:30.500 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Man as Jackson:
MONDAY EVENING: DARLING SWIPES,
01:22:30.500 --> 01:22:34.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WELL, OLD GIRL, I HAVE BROUGHT
THE CAR TO ITS BIRTHPLACE,
01:22:34.566 --> 01:22:37.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND A GREAT RECEPTION IT GOT.
01:22:37.233 --> 01:22:39.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WE HAD QUITE A PROCESSION
INTO THE CITY.
01:22:39.566 --> 01:22:42.733 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
THEY ARE ALL
LIKE A LOT OF KIDS.
01:22:45.466 --> 01:22:49.133 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
Narrator: SURROUNDED
BY REPORTERS WHO NOW
HUNG ON HIS EVERY WORD,
01:22:49.133 --> 01:22:52.833 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
JACKSON SAID HIS CHIEF
ADVICE TO ANYONE TRYING
TO MAKE A SIMILAR TRIP
01:22:52.833 --> 01:22:55.366 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
WOULD BE FOR THEM
TO FIGURE OUT THEIR EXPENSES
01:22:55.366 --> 01:22:59.066 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AND MULTIPLY THAT BY 20.
01:23:06.233 --> 01:23:10.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Man: THE JACKSON PARTY
WENT TO THE HOLLENDEN HOTEL
FOR A CLEANUP AND FOR SUPPER
01:23:10.800 --> 01:23:12.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WHILE THE FAITHFUL
BULLDOG MASCOT--
01:23:12.366 --> 01:23:15.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
SO UGLY THAT HE'S HANDSOME--
01:23:15.700 --> 01:23:19.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
REMAINED IN CHARGE
AND FOUGHT FLIES
01:23:19.366 --> 01:23:23.200 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AND KEPT OFF
INQUISITIVE NEWSBOYS.
01:23:23.200 --> 01:23:25.566 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
THE MOTOR AGE.
01:23:25.566 --> 01:23:28.466 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Narrator:
JACKSON WAS NOW CONFIDENT
01:23:28.466 --> 01:23:32.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THAT THE OTHER TWO CARS
COULD NOT BEAT HIM TO NEW YORK.
01:23:33.533 --> 01:23:36.766 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
IT SEEMED LIKE A SAFE BET.
01:23:39.133 --> 01:23:41.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DESPITE ALL THEIR
METICULOUS PLANNING,
01:23:41.500 --> 01:23:45.266 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
BOTH EXPEDITIONS HAD RUN
INTO PROBLEMS OF THEIR OWN.
01:23:45.266 --> 01:23:46.400 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
INSTEAD OF CONTINUING TO FOLLOW
01:23:46.400 --> 01:23:49.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
THE DIRECT ROUTE OF
THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD,
01:23:49.466 --> 01:23:52.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
TOM FETCH AND MARIUS KRARUP
HAD TURNED SOUTHEAST
01:23:52.166 --> 01:23:55.133 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
INTO THE CANYONS OF UTAH
01:23:55.133 --> 01:23:58.200 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
AND THE HEART
OF COLORADO'S ROCKY MOUNTAINS,
01:23:58.200 --> 01:24:00.533 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
A ROUTE PRESELECTED FOR THEM
01:24:00.533 --> 01:24:02.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BY THE PACKARD COMPANY'S
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR
01:24:02.200 --> 01:24:04.666 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
BACK IN OHIO.
01:24:04.666 --> 01:24:06.700 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
"LIKE A DUMB FOOL,
01:24:06.700 --> 01:24:09.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"I WAS THINKING FROM
THE STANDPOINT OF PUBLICITY,
01:24:09.333 --> 01:24:11.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WITH PICTURES OF MOUNTAINS
AND CANYONS," HE SAID LATER,
01:24:11.166 --> 01:24:17.033 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
"BUT WHAT I SENT THEM INTO WAS
SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE."
01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:22.233 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
MEANWHILE,
THE OLDSMOBILE RUNABOUT
01:24:22.233 --> 01:24:24.900 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
WAS EVEN FARTHER FROM ITS GOAL.
01:24:24.900 --> 01:24:26.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AFTER A SERIES OF BREAKDOWNS,
01:24:26.400 --> 01:24:29.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
LESTER WHITMAN
AND EUGENE HAMMOND
01:24:29.066 --> 01:24:31.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WERE STILL IN NEVADA
WITH A BROKEN PART
01:24:31.833 --> 01:24:34.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAT ALLOWED THEM
TO DRIVE IN REVERSE,
01:24:34.300 --> 01:24:36.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
BUT NOT IN FORWARD.
01:24:46.833 --> 01:24:48.300 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Man as Jackson:
DARLING SWIPES,
01:24:48.300 --> 01:24:51.066 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
THE CAR IS AT THE SHOP,
01:24:51.066 --> 01:24:52.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND THEY ARE TO WORK ALL NIGHT
01:24:52.600 --> 01:24:54.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SO THAT I CAN GET AWAY
IN THE MORNING.
01:24:54.433 --> 01:24:58.133 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
I GO FROM HERE TO BUFFALO.
01:24:58.133 --> 01:25:01.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
I AM TIRED AND GOT TO GET UP
EARLY IN THE MORNING,
01:25:01.966 --> 01:25:05.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND I AM DAMN ANXIOUS
TO GET YOU IN MY ARMS.
01:25:05.333 --> 01:25:08.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
WATCH ME NOW COME TO YOU.
01:25:08.833 --> 01:25:11.266 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
NEL.
01:25:13.100 --> 01:25:16.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Narrator: JACKSON
SET OFF FROM CLEVELAND
WITH CROCKER AND BUD
01:25:16.800 --> 01:25:18.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
ON THE 21st OF JULY,
01:25:18.733 --> 01:25:21.700 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
INTENT ON REACHING HIS GOAL
AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
01:25:25.333 --> 01:25:28.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
TO AVOID THE RISK OF CROSSING
THE ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS,
01:25:28.333 --> 01:25:29.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HE NOW DECIDED TO TURN
NORTHEAST
01:25:29.466 --> 01:25:32.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ALONG THE GREAT LAKES
TO BUFFALO,
01:25:32.666 --> 01:25:35.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THEN TO ALBANY
ON A NEW STATE ROAD
01:25:35.266 --> 01:25:40.900 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
BEFORE TURNING SOUTH AGAIN
TO FOLLOW THE HUDSON RIVER
INTO MANHATTAN.
01:25:40.900 --> 01:25:43.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IT WOULD ADD SEVERAL HUNDRED
MILES TO THE TRIP,
01:25:43.566 --> 01:25:46.366 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
BUT AS JACKSON TOLD A REPORTER,
01:25:46.366 --> 01:25:49.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH
OF MOUNTAINS."
01:25:51.433 --> 01:25:55.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THEY COVERED THE 200 MILES
TO BUFFALO IN LESS THAN 2 DAYS,
01:25:55.300 --> 01:25:58.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DESPITE RAIN SO FIERCE
THAT JACKSON TELEGRAPHED,
01:25:58.933 --> 01:26:02.833 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
"IF IT CONTINUES, WE'LL ASK YOU
TO SEND PADDLES FOR THE WHEELS
01:26:02.833 --> 01:26:05.733 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
AND A RUDDER
FOR THE REAR OF THE CAR."
01:26:17.633 --> 01:26:20.333 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
THE VERMONT,
HE TOLD A REPORTER,
01:26:20.333 --> 01:26:21.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WAS NOW SPLATTERED
WITH SAMPLES OF MUD
01:26:21.966 --> 01:26:24.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
FROM EVERY STATE
THEY HAD CROSSED,
01:26:24.033 --> 01:26:26.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND HE DIDN'T INTEND
TO WASH ANY OF IT OFF
01:26:26.933 --> 01:26:29.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
UNTIL THE TRIP WAS FINISHED.
01:26:29.400 --> 01:26:32.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
RUNNING ON ROADS THAT PARALLELED
THE OLD ERIE CANAL,
01:26:32.633 --> 01:26:36.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
THEY PUSHED ON
ACROSS NEW YORK STATE,
01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:38.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SOMETIMES DRIVING
WELL INTO THE NIGHT,
01:26:38.266 --> 01:26:41.833 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
SIMPLY TO PUT
MORE MILES BEHIND THEM.
01:26:41.833 --> 01:26:45.933 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
HE WAS SURE HE COULD
MAKE NEW YORK CITY
IN LESS THAN A WEEK,
01:26:45.933 --> 01:26:47.166 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
WIN HIS BET,
01:26:47.166 --> 01:26:49.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND BECOME THE FIRST PERSON
TO DRIVE ACROSS THE CONTINENT...
01:26:49.733 --> 01:26:53.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
UNLESS THE VERMONT
BROKE DOWN COMPLETELY.
01:27:04.266 --> 01:27:06.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Man as Jackson: EAST OF BUFFALO,
TRAVELING IN HIGH--
01:27:06.466 --> 01:27:09.533 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
AT LEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR--
01:27:09.533 --> 01:27:13.433 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THE MACHINE STRUCK A HIDDEN
OBSTRUCTION IN THE ROAD.
01:27:13.433 --> 01:27:17.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
CROCKER, BUD, AND MYSELF
WERE THROWN HIGH IN THE AIR,
01:27:17.333 --> 01:27:21.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT FORTUNATELY,
NONE OF US WAS HURT.
01:27:21.400 --> 01:27:23.800 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
Narrator:
THE VERMONT WAS BRUISED,
01:27:23.800 --> 01:27:28.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT TO EVERYONE'S RELIEF,
STILL ABLE TO RUN.
01:27:28.533 --> 01:27:33.733 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
THEY DROVE ON THROUGH SYRACUSE,
UTICA, SCHENECTADY,
01:27:33.733 --> 01:27:36.533 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
DETERMINED NOW NOT TO STOP
FOR ANYTHING.
01:27:42.566 --> 01:27:44.933 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
THEY CROSSED THE HUDSON
AT ALBANY
01:27:44.933 --> 01:27:48.733 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND TURNED SOUTH TO FOLLOW
THE EAST BANK OF THE RIVER.
01:27:48.733 --> 01:27:52.566 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
NEWS OF THEIR APPROACH
BROUGHT OUT CHEERING CROWDS
01:27:52.566 --> 01:27:54.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AS THEY PASSED THROUGH THE TOWNS
OF HUDSON AND POUGHKEEPSIE.
01:27:58.400 --> 01:28:02.733 align:left position:35% line:77% size:55%
IN PEEKSKILL,
THEY WERE DELAYED BRIEFLY
TO PATCH A PUNCTURED TIRE
01:28:02.733 --> 01:28:06.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BY THE GLOW OF A HOTEL'S
OUTSIDE LIGHT.
01:28:06.000 --> 01:28:08.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THERE, A DELEGATION
OF REPORTERS,
01:28:08.833 --> 01:28:13.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WINTON COMPANY OFFICIALS,
AND JACKSON'S WIFE BERTHA
01:28:13.433 --> 01:28:16.866 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
MET THEM IN A FLEET OF CARS
TO JOIN IN THE FINAL MILES.
01:28:25.166 --> 01:28:29.100 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
IT WAS 4:30 IN THE MORNING
ON SUNDAY, JULY 26,
01:28:29.100 --> 01:28:30.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
WHEN THEY CROSSED
THE HARLEM RIVER INTO MANHATTAN,
01:28:30.633 --> 01:28:34.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DROVE DOWN THE CITY'S
DESERTED STREETS,
01:28:34.600 --> 01:28:38.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND FINALLY, HONKED THEIR HORN
TO AWAKEN THE NIGHT PORTER
01:28:38.100 --> 01:28:42.766 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AT THE HOLLAND HOUSE HOTEL
ON 30th STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE.
01:28:42.766 --> 01:28:45.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON HAD MADE IT
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
01:28:45.633 --> 01:28:49.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IN 63 DAYS, 12 HOURS,
AND 30 MINUTES,
01:28:49.300 --> 01:28:51.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WELL WITHIN HIS WAGER
OF 90 DAYS,
01:28:51.833 --> 01:28:54.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
AND HAVING BECOME
THE FIRST TO DRIVE
A CAR ACROSS THE NATION.
01:28:54.533 --> 01:28:58.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ONCE NEW YORK WOKE UP
TO THE NEWS,
01:28:58.566 --> 01:29:02.866 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
HE AND CROCKER AND BUD
WERE THE TOAST OF THE TOWN.
01:29:10.966 --> 01:29:14.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man: THE NEW YORK HERALD:
DR. H. NELSON JACKSON
01:29:14.566 --> 01:29:17.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND SEWALL K. CROCKER,
HIS CHAUFFEUR,
01:29:17.566 --> 01:29:20.733 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
FINISHED THE FIRST
TRANSCONTINENTAL AUTOMOBILE TRIP
01:29:20.733 --> 01:29:24.033 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AT HALF PAST 4:00
YESTERDAY MORNING.
01:29:24.033 --> 01:29:25.533 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
ON THEIR ARRIVAL,
01:29:25.533 --> 01:29:27.800 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
THE MUD-BESMIRCHED
AND TRAVEL-STAINED VEHICLE,
01:29:27.800 --> 01:29:31.133 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
WHICH HAD BORNE THEM
SO FAITHFULLY AND STURDILY
01:29:31.133 --> 01:29:33.866 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
OVER 5,600 MILES OF ROADS,
01:29:33.866 --> 01:29:38.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
WAS HOUSED IN A GARAGE
IN WEST 58th STREET.
01:29:38.200 --> 01:29:40.500 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5%
ALL DAY YESTERDAY,
01:29:40.500 --> 01:29:43.200 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
IT WAS VISITED
BY ADMIRING AUTOMOBILISTS,
01:29:43.200 --> 01:29:47.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND CURIOUS PASSERSBY
PEEPED IN UPON IT.
01:29:47.133 --> 01:29:48.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
IN HONOR OF ITS ACHIEVEMENT,
01:29:48.566 --> 01:29:52.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
IT WAS DECORATED
WITH TINY FLAGS
01:29:52.000 --> 01:29:54.900 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
AND DRAPED
WITH NATIONAL STANDARDS.
01:29:54.900 --> 01:30:00.800 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
A THICK COATING OF MUD
GAVE EVIDENCE THAT
IT HAD BEEN SOMEWHERE,
01:30:00.800 --> 01:30:04.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND THAT SOMEWHERE,
A LONG WAY OFF.
01:30:13.200 --> 01:30:18.233 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
Narrator: NEWSPAPERS
ALL ACROSS THE NATION
RETOLD JACKSON'S STORY,
01:30:18.233 --> 01:30:20.300 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
SOMETIMES EMBELLISHING DETAILS,
01:30:20.300 --> 01:30:25.100 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
INCLUDING ONE REPORT
THAT CLAIMED THE VERMONT
HAD FLOATED ACROSS RIVERS
01:30:25.100 --> 01:30:28.833 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
USING ITS REVOLVING WHEELS
AS PROPELLERS.
01:30:42.966 --> 01:30:47.133 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
JACKSON HAD LOST 20 POUNDS
DURING THE LONG JOURNEY,
01:30:47.133 --> 01:30:50.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND HE HAD SPENT $8,000
OF HIS OWN MONEY--
01:30:50.466 --> 01:30:55.333 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
THE PRICE OF THE CAR,
A SALARY FOR CROCKER,
FOOD AND LODGING,
01:30:55.333 --> 01:30:59.400 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
THE SEEMINGLY ENDLESS
NEED FOR NEW TIRES
AND REPLACEMENT PARTS,
01:30:59.400 --> 01:31:06.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
800 GALLONS OF GASOLINE,
AND THE $15 TO PURCHASE BUD.
01:31:06.133 --> 01:31:07.433 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
"BUT," HE SAID,
01:31:07.433 --> 01:31:10.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"IT WAS WORTH EVERY CENT
AND EVERY POUND
01:31:10.166 --> 01:31:12.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
TO WIN THAT $50 BET."
01:31:12.933 --> 01:31:14.566 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND YET, WHEN IT WAS ALL OVER,
01:31:14.566 --> 01:31:19.233 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
HE NEVER BOTHERED
TO COLLECT HIS WINNINGS.
01:31:19.233 --> 01:31:21.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
HE NEVER COLLECTED
THE $50 BET.
01:31:21.600 --> 01:31:22.866 align:left position:52.5% line:83% size:37.5%
NEVER.
NEVER.
01:31:22.866 --> 01:31:24.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
IT WASN'T THE MONEY.
01:31:24.866 --> 01:31:28.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80%
I DON'T THINK THAT
WAS WHAT DROVE HIM
TO DO THIS.
01:31:33.666 --> 01:31:35.766 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
Narrator:
ON THURSDAY, JULY 30,
01:31:35.766 --> 01:31:38.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON AND HIS WIFE,
WITH BUD ON BOARD,
01:31:38.133 --> 01:31:40.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HEADED HOME TOGETHER
IN THE VERMONT.
01:31:52.400 --> 01:31:53.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THE TRIP TOOK A WEEK
01:31:53.733 --> 01:31:56.033 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
AND WAS PUNCTUATED
BY THE PROBLEMS AND DELAYS
01:31:56.033 --> 01:31:58.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
HE HAD BECOME
ACCUSTOMED TO BY NOW.
01:31:58.700 --> 01:32:00.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE LOW-SPEED CLUTCH
BROKE IN HUDSON,
01:32:00.866 --> 01:32:04.033 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THEN THE HIGH-SPEED CLUTCH
GAVE OUT IN ALBANY,
01:32:04.033 --> 01:32:07.700 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND THE BREAKER BOX FAILED
IN MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT.
01:32:07.700 --> 01:32:11.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
NEAR SHELBURNE,
JACKSON'S TWO BROTHERS
01:32:11.866 --> 01:32:13.866 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
SHOWED UP IN
THEIR OWN AUTOMOBILE
01:32:13.866 --> 01:32:17.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TO ESCORT HIM AND BERTHA
THE FINAL 10 MILES.
01:32:17.700 --> 01:32:20.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT THE CYLINDER BLEW OUT
IN THEIR CAR,
01:32:20.666 --> 01:32:23.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SO JACKSON CHAINED IT
TO THE VERMONT
01:32:23.733 --> 01:32:27.233 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND TOWED THEM THE REST
OF THE WAY INTO BURLINGTON.
01:32:30.033 --> 01:32:31.700 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
HE REACHED HIS HOME AT LAST
01:32:31.700 --> 01:32:34.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IN THE LATE AFTERNOON
OF AUGUST 7,
01:32:34.433 --> 01:32:37.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND WENT TO PARK HIS TRUSTED CAR
IN THE STABLE.
01:32:40.800 --> 01:32:43.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JUST AS THE VERMONT
CROSSED THE THRESHOLD,
01:32:43.900 --> 01:32:45.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
ITS DRIVE CHAIN--
01:32:45.500 --> 01:32:49.266 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
ONE OF THE FEW PARTS
THAT HAD MADE THE ENTIRE
JOURNEY WITHOUT A PROBLEM--
01:32:49.266 --> 01:32:51.066 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
SNAPPED IN TWO.
01:32:56.500 --> 01:33:00.100 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
TWO WEEKS LATER,
TOM FETCH AND MARIUS KRARUP
01:33:00.100 --> 01:33:01.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
FINALLY MADE IT TO NEW YORK,
01:33:01.900 --> 01:33:06.033 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
HAVING COMPLETED THEIR TRIP
IN A DAY AND A HALF LESS
THAN JACKSON'S TIME,
01:33:06.033 --> 01:33:08.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT FINISHING SECOND
NONETHELESS.
01:33:08.900 --> 01:33:12.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THEY WERE ESCORTED INTO THE CITY
BY A HOST OF PACKARDS
01:33:12.066 --> 01:33:15.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND GREETED BY A CHEERING CROWD.
01:33:15.066 --> 01:33:18.666 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
"THANK THE LORD," ONE OF THEM
SAID AS HE GOT OUT OF THE CAR,
01:33:18.666 --> 01:33:20.766 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
"IT'S OVER."
01:33:20.766 --> 01:33:22.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
ON SEPTEMBER 17,
01:33:22.433 --> 01:33:23.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
LESTER WHITMAN
AND EUGENE HAMMOND
01:33:23.833 --> 01:33:27.733 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
REACHED NEW YORK IN THEIR SMALL
OLDSMOBILE RUNABOUT
01:33:27.733 --> 01:33:31.866 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
IN THE SLOWEST TIME OF 73 DAYS.
01:33:31.866 --> 01:33:35.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
BUT IN A GIMMICK TO GAIN GREATER
PUBLICITY FOR THEIR COMPANY,
01:33:35.000 --> 01:33:37.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THEY THEN DROVE UP THE COAST
TO BOSTON,
01:33:37.533 --> 01:33:41.600 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
WHERE THEY DIPPED
THE OLDSMOBILE'S FRONT
WHEELS INTO THE ATLANTIC
01:33:41.600 --> 01:33:45.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND CLAIMED TO BE THE FIRST TRUE
SEA-TO-SEA DRIVERS.
01:33:49.133 --> 01:33:52.500 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
MEANWHILE,
BACK HOME IN VERMONT,
01:33:52.500 --> 01:33:56.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON SOON HAD HIS CAR
UP AND RUNNING AGAIN.
01:34:01.066 --> 01:34:06.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Man: OCTOBER 3, 1903:
DR. H. N. JACKSON,
01:34:06.933 --> 01:34:11.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
FIRST MAN TO CROSS THE CONTINENT
IN AN AUTOMOBILE,
01:34:11.266 --> 01:34:14.133 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
WAS ARRESTED
IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT,
01:34:14.133 --> 01:34:17.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND FINED $5.00 PLUS COURT COSTS
01:34:17.700 --> 01:34:22.700 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
FOR DRIVING THE MACHINE
MORE THAN 6 MILES AN HOUR.
01:34:37.133 --> 01:34:43.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Man: LO, SOUL, SEEST THOU NOT
GOD'S PURPOSE FROM THE FIRST?
01:34:43.333 --> 01:34:47.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE EARTH TO BE SPANN'D,
CONNECTED BY NETWORK.
01:34:47.666 --> 01:34:51.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE OCEANS TO BE CROSS'D,
THE DISTANT BROUGHT NEAR,
01:34:51.833 --> 01:34:55.000 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
THE LANDS TO BE
WELDED TOGETHER.
01:34:55.000 --> 01:34:58.833 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
WALT WHITMAN.
01:34:58.833 --> 01:35:03.566 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Duncan: 3 CARS HAD NOW
CROSSED THE CONTINENT
IN THE SAME YEAR,
01:35:03.566 --> 01:35:05.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
AND THAT WAS SIGNIFICANT.
01:35:05.466 --> 01:35:08.666 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
IT MEANT YOU CAN DO IT.
01:35:08.666 --> 01:35:12.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
PRIOR TO 1903, IT WAS A QUESTION
OF WHETHER AN AUTOMOBILE
01:35:12.700 --> 01:35:14.866 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
COULD MAKE IT
ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
01:35:14.866 --> 01:35:18.066 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AFTER 1903, THE QUESTION BECAME,
01:35:18.066 --> 01:35:19.466 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
"IN WHAT TIME CAN YOU MAKE IT?"
01:35:19.466 --> 01:35:21.633 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"IN WHAT COMFORT
CAN YOU MAKE IT?"
01:35:21.633 --> 01:35:25.066 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
SO THAT WAS A VERY
IMPORTANT YEAR--
01:35:25.066 --> 01:35:27.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
JACKSON'S TRIP
AND THE OTHER TWO--
01:35:27.866 --> 01:35:31.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
OF SAYING THAT THE CAR
IS GOING TO BE
01:35:31.266 --> 01:35:34.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THIS VEHICLE OF
INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
01:35:34.066 --> 01:35:37.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
AND OF DISTANCE;
01:35:37.066 --> 01:35:39.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAT IT COULD HAVE
THIS POTENTIAL
01:35:39.100 --> 01:35:40.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
TO REPLACE THE RAILROAD
AND THE HORSE
01:35:40.500 --> 01:35:44.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AS THE MAIN MEANS
OF TRANSPORTATION.
01:35:44.433 --> 01:35:46.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND IF YOU WANTED TO SAY
WHAT DEFINES THE 20th CENTURY
01:35:46.866 --> 01:35:51.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IN TERMS OF CHANGES UNDERTAKEN
IN THE UNITED STATES--
01:35:51.000 --> 01:35:52.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
SOME GOOD AND SOME BAD--
01:35:52.300 --> 01:35:56.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
IT'D BE HARD TO GET
PAST THE AUTOMOBILE
AS THE FIRST THING.
01:36:01.466 --> 01:36:02.900 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5%
Narrator: IN 1903,
01:36:02.900 --> 01:36:07.000 align:left position:35% line:77% size:55%
AS THE NATION
CELEBRATED THE CENTENNIAL
OF THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
01:36:07.000 --> 01:36:10.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
AND LEWIS AND CLARK'S
FIRST EPIC JOURNEY
ACROSS THE CONTINENT,
01:36:10.200 --> 01:36:15.833 align:left position:25% line:77% size:65%
AMERICANS SENSED THAT
THEIR WORLD HAD SUDDENLY
GOTTEN MUCH SMALLER.
01:36:18.833 --> 01:36:21.966 align:left position:45% line:83% size:45%
IN 1903,
PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT
01:36:21.966 --> 01:36:25.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
SENT A NEW YEAR'S GREETING
TO ENGLAND'S KING EDWARD VII
01:36:25.100 --> 01:36:28.233 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
USING MARCONI'S
NEW WIRELESS RADIO
01:36:28.233 --> 01:36:32.233 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THAT COULD TRANSMIT SIGNALS
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
01:36:32.233 --> 01:36:36.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IN 1903, A CABLE WAS LAID
ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN,
01:36:36.766 --> 01:36:38.600 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
THE LAST LINK IN A WEB OF WIRE
01:36:38.600 --> 01:36:41.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THAT ALLOWED ROOSEVELT
TO TELEGRAPH
01:36:41.033 --> 01:36:43.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE FIRST MESSAGE
SENT AROUND THE WORLD.
01:36:43.933 --> 01:36:46.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE COMPLETE CIRCUIT
TOOK 12 MINUTES.
01:36:46.866 --> 01:36:52.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IN 1903, TWO BICYCLE MECHANICS
FROM DAYTON, OHIO,
01:36:52.333 --> 01:36:54.166 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
NAMED ORVILLE AND WILBUR WRIGHT
01:36:54.166 --> 01:36:55.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
MADE THE WORLD'S
FIRST AIRPLANE FLIGHT,
01:36:55.600 --> 01:36:59.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
SOARING IN THEIR
GASOLINE-POWERED MACHINE
01:36:59.066 --> 01:37:02.600 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
OVER THE BEACHES
AT KITTY HAWK, NORTH CAROLINA.
01:37:03.833 --> 01:37:07.733 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND FARTHER DOWN THE COAST
THAT SAME YEAR,
01:37:07.733 --> 01:37:09.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ALEXANDER WINTON DROVE
ONE OF HIS CARS
01:37:09.833 --> 01:37:15.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AN ASTONISHING 68 MILES PER HOUR
AT DAYTONA BEACH.
01:37:15.866 --> 01:37:20.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Least Heat-Moon: I THINK
OF ALL THE NATIONS ON EARTH,
01:37:20.166 --> 01:37:21.733 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
PERHAPS NONE HAS A HISTORY
01:37:21.733 --> 01:37:24.666 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
THAT'S MORE CLOSELY TIED
TO TRAVEL--
01:37:24.666 --> 01:37:26.666 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80%
AND PARTICULARLY THE OPEN ROAD--
01:37:26.666 --> 01:37:28.166 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
THAN IS AMERICAN HISTORY.
01:37:28.166 --> 01:37:33.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WE ARE A NATION IN WHOSE HISTORY
YOU MUST UNDERSTAND MOVEMENT...
01:37:36.133 --> 01:37:38.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
NOT ONLY MOVEMENT OF THE MIND,
01:37:38.666 --> 01:37:42.700 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
BUT CLEARLY A MOVEMENT
OF PEOPLE PHYSICALLY
THROUGH THE LANDSCAPE.
01:37:44.233 --> 01:37:48.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
Man: AUGUST 4, 1903:
01:37:48.266 --> 01:37:52.233 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
WHAT IS ADMITTED TO BE
THE GREATEST AUTOMOBILE
PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
01:37:52.233 --> 01:37:55.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
WAS THE TRANSCONTINENTAL TOUR
OF DR. H. NELSON JACKSON
01:37:55.466 --> 01:37:59.166 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK.
01:37:59.166 --> 01:38:00.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE TRIP IS CONSIDERED
AS A SIGNAL TRIUMPH
01:38:00.566 --> 01:38:03.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
FOR THE COMPARATIVELY
NEW MEANS OF TRAVEL.
01:38:03.766 --> 01:38:07.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE JOURNEY WAS MADE
PURELY FOR PLEASURE
01:38:07.233 --> 01:38:10.200 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
AND TO SATISFY
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MOTORIST
01:38:10.200 --> 01:38:12.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
THAT IT COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED,
01:38:12.866 --> 01:38:16.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
BUT IT HAS DEMONSTRATED
MUCH MORE THAN THIS.
01:38:16.366 --> 01:38:20.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IT HAS SHOWN THE POSSIBILITIES
OF THE AUTOMOBILE,
01:38:20.400 --> 01:38:23.566 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
EVEN WITH THE GENERALLY
DISREPUTABLE HIGHWAYS
01:38:23.566 --> 01:38:28.200 align:left position:17.5% line:77% size:72.5%
WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF
NEARLY EVERY RURAL DISTRICT
IN THE COUNTRY.
01:38:28.200 --> 01:38:30.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
BUT WHEN GOOD ROADS
SHALL BE THE RULE
01:38:30.400 --> 01:38:33.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
INSTEAD OF THE EXCEPTION,
01:38:33.166 --> 01:38:35.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IT MAY BE PREDICTED
WITH CONFIDENCE
01:38:35.066 --> 01:38:38.566 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
THAT SUCH JOURNEYS AS THAT
MADE BY DR. JACKSON
01:38:38.566 --> 01:38:41.333 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
WILL BE FAR FROM EXTRAORDINARY.
01:38:41.333 --> 01:38:43.900 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THE BOSTON HERALD.
01:38:47.100 --> 01:38:49.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Narrator: WITHIN A FEW YEARS
OF JACKSON'S TRIP,
01:38:49.100 --> 01:38:51.900 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AN ORGANIZED MOVEMENT BEGAN
IN THE UNITED STATES
01:38:51.900 --> 01:38:56.433 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
TO IMPROVE THE NATION'S ROADS
TO ACCOMMODATE THE AUTOMOBILE,
01:38:56.433 --> 01:38:59.833 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
TO PROVIDE BETTER SERVICES,
BETTER MAPS,
01:38:59.833 --> 01:39:04.100 align:left position:32.5% line:77% size:57.5%
BETTER WAYS FOR
PEOPLE IN CARS TO TRAVEL
WHEREVER THEY WISHED TO GO.
01:39:04.100 --> 01:39:09.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IN 1904, AN AUTOMOBILE WOULD
BE DRIVEN ACROSS THE CONTINENT
01:39:09.433 --> 01:39:10.900 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
IN HALF OF JACKSON'S TIME.
01:39:10.900 --> 01:39:15.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TWO YEARS LATER, THE TIME
WAS CUT IN HALF ONCE MORE.
01:39:15.933 --> 01:39:20.533 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
IN 1908, JACOB MURDOCK
LOADED HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN
01:39:20.533 --> 01:39:22.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
INTO HIS NEW PACKARD MODEL 30
01:39:22.966 --> 01:39:27.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
AND DROVE FROM PASADENA
TO NEW YORK IN 32 DAYS,
01:39:27.900 --> 01:39:31.066 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
BECOMING THE FIRST FAMILY
TO DRIVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY
01:39:31.066 --> 01:39:32.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND BEGINNING A TRADITION
OF ROAD TRIPS
01:39:32.933 --> 01:39:37.400 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
THAT GENERATIONS OF
AMERICAN FAMILIES WOULD FOLLOW.
01:39:37.400 --> 01:39:41.100 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
MURDOCK REFUSED TO LET
ANYONE ELSE BEHIND THE WHEEL,
01:39:41.100 --> 01:39:42.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DIDN'T LIKE TO ASK FOR
DIRECTIONS,
01:39:42.466 --> 01:39:47.566 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
AND SOME DAYS, KEPT ON THE MOVE
FOR MORE THAN 12 STRAIGHT HOURS
01:39:47.566 --> 01:39:50.800 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
IN ORDER TO PUT
SOME EXTRA MILES BEHIND HIM.
01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:53.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"I KNOW NOTHING MORE
DISHEARTENING," HE SAID,
01:39:53.033 --> 01:39:57.133 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
"THAN TO SEE THE SUN JUST ABOUT
TO SET BELOW THE HORIZON
01:39:57.133 --> 01:40:01.300 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
WHEN ONE IS MANY MILES
FROM THE PLACE HE HAD
HOPED TO MAKE THAT DAY."
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BY 1913, THE NATION'S FIRST
TRANSCONTINENTAL MOTOR ROUTE,
01:40:08.900 --> 01:40:10.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY,
01:40:10.200 --> 01:40:11.933 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
HAD BEEN CREATED COAST-TO-COAST
01:40:11.933 --> 01:40:14.233 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
THROUGH THE CENTER
OF THE COUNTRY,
01:40:14.233 --> 01:40:18.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
AND BY 1916, AN AUTOMOBILE HAD
RACED ACROSS ITS ENTIRE LENGTH
01:40:18.400 --> 01:40:20.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
IN JUST 5 DAYS' TIME.
01:40:25.366 --> 01:40:28.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
JACKSON'S TRAVELING COMPANION
SEWALL CROCKER
01:40:28.300 --> 01:40:31.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
DID NOT LIVE LONG ENOUGH
TO SEE THAT DAY.
01:40:31.366 --> 01:40:34.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS
AND JACKSON'S JOURNEY IN 1903,
01:40:34.833 --> 01:40:36.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HE HAD LOOKED FOR SOMEONE
TO SPONSOR HIM
01:40:36.800 --> 01:40:39.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
ON AN AUTOMOBILE TRIP
AROUND THE WORLD,
01:40:39.700 --> 01:40:42.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
BUT NOTHING EVER CAME OF IT.
01:40:42.633 --> 01:40:43.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
HIS HEALTH BROKE,
01:40:43.966 --> 01:40:46.633 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
AND HE DIED IN HIS HOMETOWN
OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON,
01:40:46.633 --> 01:40:53.566 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
ON APRIL 22, 1913,
AT THE AGE OF 32.
01:40:59.966 --> 01:41:06.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70%
Duncan: BUD WENT
HOME WITH JACKSON
AND SWIPES TO VERMONT
01:41:06.433 --> 01:41:13.600 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5%
AND APPARENTLY LIVED
A FULL LIFE AND DIED
AND WENT TO DOG HEAVEN.
01:41:13.600 --> 01:41:18.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Narrator: HORATIO NELSON JACKSON
NEVER STOPPED MOVING.
01:41:18.600 --> 01:41:21.200 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
HE BECAME
A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN,
01:41:21.200 --> 01:41:24.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER,
RADIO STATION OWNER,
01:41:24.733 --> 01:41:25.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
PRESIDENT OF A BANK.
01:41:28.966 --> 01:41:31.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
DESPITE BEING IN HIS FORTIES,
01:41:31.866 --> 01:41:36.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
HE INSISTED ON GOING OVERSEAS
WITH THE ARMY IN WORLD WAR I
01:41:36.000 --> 01:41:38.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND RETURNED A DECORATED HERO,
01:41:38.400 --> 01:41:41.900 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
HAVING RECEIVED
THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
01:41:41.900 --> 01:41:45.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AS WELL AS FRANCE'S
CROIX DE GUERRE.
01:41:45.333 --> 01:41:48.300 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
BACK IN THE UNITED STATES,
01:41:48.300 --> 01:41:50.666 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
HE HELPED FOUND
THE AMERICAN LEGION
01:41:50.666 --> 01:41:53.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
AND LATER RAN UNSUCCESSFULLY
FOR GOVERNOR OF VERMONT.
01:41:58.000 --> 01:42:03.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
IN 1944, JACKSON DONATED HIS CAR
TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
01:42:03.500 --> 01:42:05.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AND FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE,
01:42:05.933 --> 01:42:08.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
NEVER TIRED OF TELLING ANYONE
WHO WOULD LISTEN
01:42:08.800 --> 01:42:11.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THE STORY OF HIS GREAT ADVENTURE
CROSSING THE CONTINENT
01:42:11.966 --> 01:42:14.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
IN A 1903 WINTON
CALLED THE VERMONT.
01:42:20.166 --> 01:42:24.333 align:left position:40% line:77% size:50%
Wall:
OUR GRANDPARENTS
TOOK US TO SEE IT.
01:42:24.333 --> 01:42:26.066 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
WE "MOTORED,"
AS THEY CALLED IT.
01:42:26.066 --> 01:42:27.166 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
AND SO WE WENT IN,
01:42:27.166 --> 01:42:31.133 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
AND WE GOT UP
INTO THE CAR.
01:42:31.133 --> 01:42:33.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
HE WANTED US
TO SIT IN THE CAR--
01:42:33.600 --> 01:42:35.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
ON THE CAR.
MM-HMM.
01:42:35.633 --> 01:42:38.166 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
AND THE LITTLE
ATTENDANT CAME BY
01:42:38.166 --> 01:42:39.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
AND SAID, "OH, NO,
YOU CAN'T GO NEAR IT."
01:42:39.933 --> 01:42:40.933 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50%
SO WE GOT DOWN,
01:42:40.933 --> 01:42:43.000 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
AND HE WENT UP
AND SAT IN IT.
01:42:43.000 --> 01:42:44.833 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
HE SAID, "I GUESS
I CAN SIT IN THE CAR
01:42:44.833 --> 01:42:46.433 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
IF I DROVE IT
ACROSS THE COUNTRY,"
01:42:46.433 --> 01:42:49.500 align:left position:40% line:83% size:50%
AND I'LL ALWAYS
REMEMBER THAT.
01:42:52.400 --> 01:42:54.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
Narrator: BY THE TIME
JACKSON DIED AT AGE 82,
01:42:54.266 --> 01:42:58.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
ON JANUARY 14, 1955,
01:42:58.100 --> 01:43:00.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
HIS NATION HAD ALREADY
BEGUN PLANNING
01:43:00.433 --> 01:43:01.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
AN INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM--
01:43:01.666 --> 01:43:04.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
A SERIES OF ROADS
THAT WOULD SOON CARRY
01:43:04.633 --> 01:43:06.700 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
MILLIONS OF CARS AND TRUCKS
FROM COAST TO COAST,
01:43:06.700 --> 01:43:10.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
MOVING AT SUCH SPEEDS
AND IN SUCH COMFORT
01:43:10.533 --> 01:43:13.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
THAT ANYONE TRAVELING THEM
WOULD FIND IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE
01:43:13.700 --> 01:43:19.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
TO IMAGINE ANYTHING
LIKE HORATIO'S DRIVE.
01:43:19.566 --> 01:43:21.233 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
Man: ♪ HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER ♪
01:43:21.233 --> 01:43:22.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ GET OUT AND GET UNDER ♪
01:43:22.500 --> 01:43:27.266 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ TO FIX HIS LITTLE MACHINE... ♪
01:43:27.266 --> 01:43:29.900 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Man as Jackson:
WE HAVE HAD HARD LUCK,
01:43:29.900 --> 01:43:33.300 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
BUT I THINK
IT ALL CAME AT ONCE.
01:43:33.300 --> 01:43:37.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
THE WORST OF IT IS OVER,
AND WE WILL GET THERE FIRST.
01:43:37.333 --> 01:43:41.133 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5%
JUST WATCH ME NOW.
01:43:41.133 --> 01:43:43.000 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
HORATIO NELSON JACKSON.
01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:45.666 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
Man: ♪ AND THEN THE DARNED
OLD ENGINE, IT WOULD MISS ♪
01:43:45.666 --> 01:43:48.666 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
♪ AND THEN
HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER ♪
01:43:48.666 --> 01:43:49.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ GET OUT AND GET UNDER ♪
01:43:49.466 --> 01:43:52.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ AND FIX UP HIS AUTOMOBILE ♪
01:44:00.666 --> 01:44:04.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ JOHNNY O'CONNOR
BOUGHT AN AUTOMOBILE ♪
01:44:04.300 --> 01:44:07.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ HE TOOK HIS SWEETHEART
FOR A RIDE ONE SUNDAY ♪
01:44:07.000 --> 01:44:10.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ JOHNNY WAS TOGGED UP
IN HIS BEST SUNDAY CLOTHES ♪
01:44:10.933 --> 01:44:14.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ SHE NESTLED CLOSE
TO HIS SIDE ♪
01:44:14.500 --> 01:44:16.800 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
♪ THINGS WERE JUST DANDY
TILL HE GOT DOWN THE ROAD ♪
01:44:16.800 --> 01:44:21.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED
TO THE OLD MACHINERY ♪
01:44:21.233 --> 01:44:22.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ THAT ENGINE GOT HIS GOAT ♪
01:44:22.966 --> 01:44:24.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
♪ OFF WENT
HIS HAT AND COAT ♪
01:44:24.800 --> 01:44:27.800 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ EVERYTHING NEEDED REPAIRS ♪
01:44:27.800 --> 01:44:29.733 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
♪ HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER ♪
01:44:29.733 --> 01:44:31.766 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ GET OUT AND GET UNDER ♪
01:44:31.766 --> 01:44:35.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ TO FIX HIS LITTLE MACHINE ♪
01:44:35.233 --> 01:44:38.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
♪ HE WAS JUST DYING TO CUDDLE
HIS QUEEN ♪
01:44:38.566 --> 01:44:39.466 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ BUT EVERY MINUTE ♪
01:44:39.466 --> 01:44:41.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ WHEN HE'D BEGIN IT ♪
01:44:41.400 --> 01:44:42.433 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
♪ HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER ♪
01:44:42.433 --> 01:44:44.533 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ GET OUT AND GET UNDER ♪
01:44:44.533 --> 01:44:48.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ THEN HE'D GET BACK
AT THE WHEEL ♪
01:44:48.033 --> 01:44:51.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
♪ A DOZEN TIMES
THEY'D START TO HUG AND KISS ♪
01:44:51.366 --> 01:44:54.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
♪ AND THEN THE DARNED OLD
ENGINE, IT WOULD MISS ♪
01:44:54.866 --> 01:44:56.866 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
♪ AND THEN
HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER ♪
01:44:56.866 --> 01:44:58.633 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
♪ GET OUT AND GET UNDER ♪
01:44:58.633 --> 01:45:02.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
♪ AND FIX UP HIS AUTOMOBILE ♪
01:46:43.266 --> 01:46:45.000 align:left position:70% line:89% size:20%
[WOOF]