Selasa, 28 Februari 2017

Hell on Wheels: When Roller-Skating Took Western Towns by Storm

It wasn’t just cattle that were rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. In September 1884 a Miles City, Montana Territory, newspaper printed a humorous account of drover Toll Caldwell’s encounter with “them little wagons”: I got one with a double cinch and another one to match it, and as soon as I straddled the layout, I could feel …

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