Just one look at Bud Nelson is enough to tell 你 that he was the greatest dog who ever lived. He’s an old-timey dog wearing goggles in a scratchy black-and-white photo—if he hadn’t existed, he would have been dreamed up for a steampunk novel 或者 Bioshock game. The human in the 照片 is Bud Nelson’s owner, a doctor called Horatio Nelson. Horatio was the first man to 交叉, 十字架 America 由 car in the 年 1903, with his hilariously named co-driver Sewall K. Crocker and, of course, Bud. That made Bud the first dog to 交叉, 十字架 the United States 由 car.At the time, the automobile was still in its infancy, meaning that driving was neither 安全 nor fun. The car was a roofless monstrosity with little to no suspension to protect them from the mostly unpaved roads, and it would have made a lot of noise while belching out noxious smoke. But Bud Nelson was braver around the thing than some people would have been back then. He was 给 the goggles to protect his eyes and sat there looking just as happy as he does in the photo, all the way across the continent of North America.