Around the United States by Bicycle
eBook - ePub

Around the United States by Bicycle

  1. 438 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Around the United States by Bicycle

About this book

This book contains a detailed account of Clarence M. Darling and Claude C. Murphey's 1904 bicycle trip through every state in the United States, having set off from Jackson, Michigan. An interesting, entertaining, and insightful chronicle, "Around the United States by Bicycle" is highly recommended for bicycle enthusiasts and lovers of vintage travel writing alike. Contents include: "The Start", "In Which We Get Held Up in Chicago", "We Ford a River in Illinois", "We Reach Madison, Wisconsin", "Nearly Lost in the Black River Wilds", "We Have Our Troubles in the Dakotas", "We Cross the Rockies", "The Many Perils of the Green River Desert", "The 'City of the Saints' and the Great Salt Lake", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the History of the Bicycle.

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Information

Publisher
Macha Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781473332157
eBook ISBN
9781473342033
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
World History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. A History of the Bicycle
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Illustrations
  8. Introductory
  9. A Work Form the Author
  10. I. The Start
  11. II. In Which We Get Held Up in Chicago
  12. III. We Ford a River in Illinois
  13. IV. We Reach Madison, Wisconsin
  14. V. Nearly Lost in the Black River Wilds
  15. VI. We Have Our Troubles in the Dakotas
  16. VII. We Cross the Rockies
  17. VIII. The Many Perils of the Green River Desert
  18. IX. The “City of the Saints” and the Great Salt Lake
  19. X. A Dash Through a Forest Fire in Idaho
  20. XI. Nearly Suffocated in a Two-Mile Tunnel
  21. XII. We Cross the Sierra Nevadas Under Difficulties
  22. XIII. The “God’s Own Country” Section of California
  23. XIV. Across a Thousand Miles of Desert and Wilderness
  24. XV. A Five Hundred Mile Walk Through Deep Snow
  25. XVI. “Trouble, Trouble, Trouble. Morning, Noon and Night,” Until We Reach New Orleans
  26. XVII. In Which We Discover That There is Still “Something Doing”
  27. XVIII. The Famous Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga, Tennessee
  28. XIX. Across the Carolinas by Means of “Shanks Mares”
  29. XX. In Which We Have a Few Pleasing Experiences With the “Old Dominion Aristocracy”
  30. XXI. Beautiful Washington and Historical Philadelphia
  31. XXII. New York, the Most Wonderful City in the World
  32. XXIII. We Cross Three States and Reach the Rock-Bound Coast of Maine
  33. XXIV. The Bitter, Bitter End to Our Dreams of Success
  34. XXV. The Marvelous Niagara Falls
  35. XXVI. We Finish Our Long Journey