Boston's cycling craze, 1880-1900 [electronic resource] : a story of race, sport, and society / Lorenz J. Finison.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kittie Knox, Boston, and the League of American Wheelmen -- The Ladies North Shore Tricycle Tours, Mary Sargent Hopkins, and the wheelwoman -- The wheelmen and the wheel around the Hub -- Abbot Bassett, the League of American Wheelmen, and the Cycling Poets -- Women's cycling clubs and the movement to oust women from a Boston club -- Ethnic cycling stories: Irish, Italians, Jews, and a Chinese American -- African American cyclists: Company L, the Riverside Cycle Club, and Robert Teamoh -- Beyond Asbury Park: Kittie Knox returns home -- The fight over cycling space and time: parkways, parks, railways, taxes, and dogs -- Racing routes and personalities: the Linscott Race, the McDuffees, the Butlers, and Major Taylor -- Wheeling home: what became of the cyclists in the twentieth century?

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