Vermont (automobile)

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The Vermont was the first automobile to cross the United States. It traveled from San Francisco, California to Manhattan, New York. It was a 1903 Winton. The crew was owner Horatio Nelson Jackson, mechanic Sewall K. Crocker and their mascot Bud, a bulldog purchased for $15 in Caldwell, Idaho.

The car survives today and is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.