Trekking across America: an up-close look at a once-popular pastime
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University of Iowa Press
[2024]
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| Abstract: | "For several decades following the end of the Civil War, the most popular sport in the United States was walking. Professional pedestrians often covered 500 miles or more for up to six grueling days and nights in pursuit of large money prizes in competitions held in big-city arenas. Walking was also a favorite amateur sport; newspapers often noted a "pedestrian mania" or "walking fever" that only began to give way in the mid-1880s to fast-rising crazes for baseball, bicycling, and roller-skating. As competitive walking faded, however, another kind of walking that had also begun in the late 1860s came to full flower. Between 1890 and 1930, hundreds of men, women, even children and entire families were on the nation's roads and railroad tracks trekking between widely separated points-frequently New York and San Francisco-and sometimes moving in unusual ways, such as on roller-skates or by walking barefooted, backwards, on stilts, or while rolling a hoop. To finance their attention-seeking journeys, many sold souvenir postcards. Although they claimed various reasons for making these treks, for most the treks clearly were a means of personal expression. The public usually found these performers entertaining, but public officials and newspaper editors often denounced them as nuisances or frauds. Tapping vintage postcards and old newspaper articles, this is the first book to bring back to view this once-familiar feature of American life. Following a prologue providing background and context, five chapters address different aspects of this trekking phenomenon. In 106 illustrations and seventy-six vignettes-some poignant, many amusing, all engaging-the book provides a fair representation of the many trekkers who moved across the country during those years. An epilogue offers some final musings about those trekking performers and their place in the annals of American popular culture." |
| Umfang: | 264 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781609389796 |
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| 505 | 8 | |a Prologue: In Edward Payson Weston's footsteps -- Chapter one: Why trek? Wagers and prizes -- Chapter two: Why trek? Attractions and challenges -- Chapter three: Why trek? Promotions and whimsies -- Chapter four: Trekking as a lifestyle choice -- Chapter five: Exuberant trekking -- Epilogue: When highways were stages | |
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| contents | Prologue: In Edward Payson Weston's footsteps -- Chapter one: Why trek? Wagers and prizes -- Chapter two: Why trek? Attractions and challenges -- Chapter three: Why trek? Promotions and whimsies -- Chapter four: Trekking as a lifestyle choice -- Chapter five: Exuberant trekking -- Epilogue: When highways were stages |
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