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Wheel Fever: How Wisconsin Became a Great Bicycling State
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Artikel-Nr:
9780870206139
Veröffentl:
2013
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.09.2013
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Jesse J. Gant
Gewicht:
807 g
Format:
228x203x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jesse J. Gant is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with research interests in nineteenth-century United States history. A native of Janesville, Wisconsin, he has written for the History News Network, the Indiana Magazine of History, and the Wisconsin Magazine of History. Jesse is a committed cyclist who divides his time between Madison and Saint Louis, Missouri. Nicholas J. Hoffman is curator at the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton, Wisconsin and has written articles for the Wisconsin Magazine of History. Born in Hillsboro, his lifelong interest in Midwest history led to a master's in history from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. An avid cyclist, he enjoys exploring the state's landscape on two wheels.
Wheel Fever tells the early history of cycling in Wisconsin, from the velocipedes of the 1870s to the high-wheels of the 1880s and standard and racing models of the 1980s. Early riders embraced the bicycle as a solution to the age-old problem of how to get from here to there in the quickest and easiest way possible. Yet for every supporter of the "poor man's horse," there were others who wanted to keep the rights and privileges of riding to an elite set, setting up a tension that continues to this day. From "boneshakers" to high wheels, tandems to tricycles, and everything in between, this book is lushly illustrated with never-before-seen images of early cycles, and the people who rode them: bloomer girls, racers, young urbanites, and union workers.