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The Bicycle and the Women’s Equality Movement of the 1890s
The Bicycle and the Women’s Equality Movement of the 1890s
History has credited the popularity of the bicycle at the end of the 19th century for its part in drawing women in the United States out of…
Matt Reicher
Dec 26, 2015
The Birth of Bicycling in Minnesota: from the Ordinary to the Safety
The Birth of Bicycling in Minnesota: from the Ordinary to the Safety
Minnesota’s nascent bicycling movement started in the latter half of the 1870s. It began to be mentioned in local newspapers with some…
Matt Reicher
Dec 7, 2015
Minnesota’s First Good Roads Movement
Minnesota’s First Good Roads Movement
The formation of the League of American Wheelmen on May 29, 1880 was the impetus behind the first Good Roads Movement to take place in the…
Matt Reicher
Apr 3, 2015
Minnesota’s First ‘Century Rides’
Minnesota’s First ‘Century Rides’
The advent of the “safety” bicycle in the 1880s brought with it a bicycling craze to cities throughout the United States and changed the…
Matt Reicher
May 11, 2015
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Dottie Farnsworth and the Ladies’ Six-Day Races of the 1890s
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