"The test was of a most severe nature, and it affords me great pleasure to be able to state the bicycles stood the work extraordinarily well, and are without doubt very fine machines."
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A Tale: Bicycling Through Yellowstone Park in 1898
"Another time, the road being good, ...he wheel was fairly spinning along, when around a curve not twenty feet away was lying in the track a large black bear. There was every indication of a collision head-on"
A Tale: Army Bicyclists Visit Yellowstone Park — 1896
"They were members the 25th Infantry, U.S. Army Bicycle Corps, a unit of African-American soldiers with white officers."