An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887

An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780803224087

Documents the record-setting, cross-country cycling trip by George Nellis in 1887.

The Descendants of Moses and Sarah Kilham Porter of Pawlet, Vermont

The Descendants of Moses and Sarah Kilham Porter of Pawlet, Vermont
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1911
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Moses Porter, son of Experience Porter and Abigail Safford, was born in 1738 in Mansfield, Connecticut. He married Sarah Kilham (1742-1843), daughter of Phineas Kilham and Thankful Hill and the widow of Joseph Park, in 1765 in Preston, Connnecticut. They had seven children. He died in 1803 in Pawlet, Vermont.

The New York Supplement

The New York Supplement
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1196
Release: 1917
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

"Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)

The Two-Wheeled World of George B. Thayer

The Two-Wheeled World of George B. Thayer
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2015-11-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0803285213

Cyclotourism has recently risen to prominence with growing national media coverage and thousands of participants taking to America's roadways on two wheels and under their own pedal power. But the concept is not new. More than a century ago, George B. Thayer took his own first "century," or one-hundred-mile bicycle ride. The Two-Wheeled World of George B. Thayer brings to life the experience of late nineteenth-century cycling through the heartfelt story of this important cycling pioneer. In 1886, just two years after his first century, Thayer rode his high wheeler across the United States, traveling from his home in Connecticut to California and back. Thayer took an indirect route without any intent to set speed records, but his trip was full of adventure nonetheless. Thayer loved going downhill, his legs over the handlebars, risking life and limb atop the large wheel on often rough and muddy roads. With aplomb and humor, he dealt with the countless other hazards he encountered, including dogs, mule teams, and wild hogs. Even bad weather and poor sleeping conditions could not keep Thayer down. After his epic tour across the United States, Thayer had the urge to cycle abroad and eventually toured England, Germany, Belgium, and Canada on his bike. His later travels were in part aided by his hometown of Hartford, Connecticut, which was the epicenter of American bicycle manufacturing in the late 1890s. In addition to telling Thayer's cycling story, Kevin J. Hayes brings to life the culture of cycling and its rise at the end of the nineteenth century, when bikes became more affordable and the nation's riding craze took off.

Labor Union Insurance

Labor Union Insurance
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 654
Release: 1978
Genre: Labor union welfare funds
ISBN:

New York Supplement

New York Supplement
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1184
Release: 1917
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

Includes decisions of the Supreme Court and various intermediate and lower courts of record; May/Aug. 1888-Sept../Dec. 1895, Superior Court of New York City; Mar./Apr. 1926-Dec. 1937/Jan. 1938, Court of Appeals.

The Shults Family in America

The Shults Family in America
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1981
Genre:
ISBN:

Johannes Schultheis (d.1759/1770) immigrated from Germany to land near Albany, New York in 1709. Descendants used the surname of Shults and lived in New York, Illinois and elsewhere.

Nellis Gray

Nellis Gray
Author: Rick Stiller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989270298

Sapped by rowdy years on the road, rude and cantankerous Nellis Gray has a locked steel gate, a pack of scruffy dogs, Chester the pet pig, and every intention of spending his remaining years working his small farm in seclusion. He shuns social contact, until desperate young sisters draw him out of isolation to craft redemption from ruin, for their eccentric family, and save the town from a confederacy of Klansmen, sadistic enforcers for a shady political campaign financed by a big-tent preacher with a global parish and secrets to hide.