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An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887,New
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In 1887 a twentyoneyearold newspaperman named George Nellis (18651948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in seventytwo days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks. He averaged fifty miles a day pedalling a fiftytwoinch, highwheeled Columbia Expert 'ordinary' bicycle with a tubular steel frame and hard rubber tires, and he lost twentythree pounds in the process.He bicycled ever westward through sleepy villages, farmlands, and growing cities of the rapidly changing nation and trekked across uninhabited stretches of prairies and mountains that marked its shrinking frontier. Following his daily tenhour rides, Nellis sat down and wrote letters about his adventures to his hometown newspapers and a national cycling magazine to finance his crosscountry journey.Nellis's epic journey over dirt paths, muddy roads, and occasional railroad ties was plagued by terrible weather, frightening experiences, and odd encounters; yet it was also enriched by breathtaking natural wonders and the generous spirit of many people he met. He nearly drowned in a flash flood, was chased by a furious bull, killed a coyote that accosted him one night, fell victim to mirages in Utah's Great Salt Desert, narrowly missed a tremendous fire that wiped out half of a California town only hours after he had left, and witnessed a horrifying accident on a train track. Nellis also managed to meet the legendary baseball player A. G. Spalding in Chicago, take in professional baseball games in Detroit and Chicago, participate in several bicycle races in Omaha, attend an opera in Cheyenne, Wyoming, enjoy a circus, and eat over two dozen bananas in one sitting in Osceola, Indiana.Drawing on Nellis's letters and media coverage of the trip, Kevin J. Hayes recreates in compelling detail this amazing trip and the many ordinary and extraordinary faces of latenineteenthcentury America that were once revealed to a young bicyclist.Purchase the audio edition.
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