The Great Bicycle Experiment : : the Army's Historic Black Bicycle Corps, 1896-97
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The buffalo soldier : pride and prejudice -- Fort Missoula, circa 1895 : life at a frontier Army post -- Why bicycles? : a transportation experiment -- Getting it together : organizing and training the Bicycle Corps -- Gearing up : trial run to Lake McDonald -- The second trial : expedition to Yellowstone -- The big idea : two thousand miles on two wheels -- And they're off! : St. Louis or bust! -- The end of the experiment : success or failure? -- Legacy : honoring the Bicycle Corps.
A true adventure story about an elite company of twenty African American soldiers who in 1897 embarked on a 1,900-mile trek across the country on bicycles.
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PUBLISHED
Missoula, Montana : Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: viii, 86 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, photographs ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780878425938
0878425934
SUBJECTS
United States. -- Bicycle Corps.
United States. -- Army -- History -- 19th century.
Military cycling -- History -- 19th century.
Fort Missoula (Mont.) -- History -- 19th century.