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An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887
An American Cycling Odyssey 1887
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
In 1887 a twenty-one-year-old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865?1948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in seventy-two days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks. He averaged fifty miles a day pedalling a fifty-two-inch, high-wheeled Columbia Expert "ordinary" bicycle with a tubular steel fr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780803224087
ISBN-10: 0803224087
Publication Date: 9/1/2002
Pages: 200
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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