Pedal and Path: Across the Continent Awheel and Afoot
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About This Book
Across the Continent Awheel and Afoot. An account of his journey across America by a member of the Connecticut Bicycle Club published in book form in 1887, having previously appeared in a shorter form as a series of letters in the Hartford Evening Post during the trip itself.
Chapters (34)(click to expand)
- PREFACE.
- Chapter I. Westward Ho! The beginning of a Seven Months’ Wheeling Tour across the Continent.
- Chapter II. Through the Highlands of the Hudson River.
- Chapter III. Up the Catskills and along the Erie Canal.
- Chapter IV. At Niagara and along Lake Erie.
- Chapter V. Through Ohio and Indiana.
- Chapter VI. At Chicago.
- Chapter VII. Across the Mississippi.
- Chapter VIII. Across the Missouri.
- Chapter IX. At the Base of the Rockies.
- Chapter X. On Pike’s Peak.
- Chapter XI. Back to Denver.
- Chapter XII. Across the Plains.
- Chapter XIII. Among the Mormons.
- Chapter XIV. At the Big Trees.
- Chapter XV. In the Yosemite Valley.
- Chapter XVI. On the Shores of the Pacific.
- Chapter XVII. With the Veterans.
- Chapter XVIII. Monterey and the Geysers.
- Chapter XIX. Out on the Pacific.
- Chapter XX. At Shoshone Falls.
- Chapter XXI. In the Yellowstone Park.
- Chapter XXII. Through the Black Cañon and the Royal Gorge.
- Chapter XXIII. A Visit to Prudence Crandall.
- Chapter XXIV. The Triennial Conclave at St. Louis.
- Chapter XXV. The Wheelmen’s Illuminated Parade.
- Chapter XXVI. Through Kentucky.
- Chapter XXVII. Down the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and Home again.
- Colophon
- Availability
- Encoding
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
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