The bicycle craze swept the nation and allowed women to ride into a new world full of all sorts of freedoms.Dust jacket blurbs often resort to hyberbole, but this volume really does include "an astonishing number of primary source research gems" that I have been enjoying.
![Woman Learning to Ride a Bike, 1890s](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5016435770_9a538aecf5.jpg)
The author, Sue Macy, has her own author site where she uses as part of her web design the picture I have above, so I know we have been looking at some of the same stuff that is out there!
I suppose this is intended for a teenage audience, but I find it excellent.
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