Boston's cycling craze, 1880-1900
Subtitle: a story of race, sport, and society
By: Lorenz J. Finison
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781625340740; 9781625340733
Subjects: Cycling; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kittie Knox, Boston, and the League of American Wheelmen; title: The Ladies North Shore Tricycle Tours, Mary Sargent Hopkins, and the wheelwoman; title: The wheelmen and the wheel around the Hub; title: Abbot Bassett, the League of American Wheelmen, and the Cycling Poets; title: Women's cycling clubs and the movement to oust women from a Boston club; title: Ethnic cycling stories: Irish, Italians, Jews, and a Chinese American; title: African American cyclists: Company L, the Riverside Cycle Club, and Robert Teamoh; title: Beyond Asbury Park: Kittie Knox returns home; title: The fight over cycling space and time: parkways, parks, railways, taxes, and dogs; title: Racing routes and personalities: the Linscott Race, the McDuffees, the Butlers, and Major Taylor; title: Wheeling home: what became of the cyclists in the twentieth century?