Muscle on wheels : Louise Armaindo and the high-wheel racers of nineteenth-century America / M. Ann Hall.

The majestic high-wheel bicycle, with its spider wheels and rubber tires, emerged in the mid-1870s as the standard bicycle. A common misconception is that, bound by Victorian dress and decorum, women were unable to ride it, only taking up cycling in the 1880s with the advent of the chain-driven safe...

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Main Author: Hall, M. Ann (Margaret Ann), 1942- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Montreal & Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.
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Physical Description:x, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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