Table of Contents

[PREFACE.][3]
I.[Westward Ho! Thebeginning of a Seven Months’ Wheeling Tour across theContinent.][5]
II.[Through theHighlands of the Hudson River.][9]
III.[Up the Catskills andalong the Erie Canal.][16]
IV.[At Niagara and alongLake Erie.][26]
V.[Through Ohio andIndiana.][36]
VI.[At Chicago.][46]
VII.[Across theMississippi.][56]
VIII.[Across theMissouri.][66]
IX.[At the Base of theRockies.][76]
X.[On Pike’sPeak.][84]
XI.[Back toDenver.][96]
XII.[Across thePlains.][105]
XIII.[Among theMormons.][121]
XIV.[At the BigTrees.][132]
XV.[In the YosemiteValley.][143]
XVI.[On the Shores ofthe Pacific.][153]
XVII.[With theVeterans.][163]
XVIII.[Monterey and theGeysers.][171]
XIX.[Out on thePacific.][179]
XX.[At ShoshoneFalls.][187]
XXI.[In the YellowstonePark.][193]
XXII.[Through the BlackCañon and the Royal Gorge.][202]
XXIII.[A Visit to PrudenceCrandall.][209]
XXIV.[The TriennialConclave at St. Louis.][216]
XXV.[TheWheelmen’s Illuminated Parade.][224]
XXVI.[ThroughKentucky.][229]
XXVII.[Down the Chesapeakeand Ohio Canal, and Home again.][236]

TO YOUNG MEN
Who Contemplate Life Insurance,
THE
Connecticut Mutual Life
Insurance Company
OFFERS:

A Policy liberal, just, and definite in all its terms and conditions:

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HOME OFFICE: HARTFORD, CONN.

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Of the fifty thousand wheelmen in the United States, twenty thousand are business men who ride for health or pleasure before or after business hours. These twenty thousand business men represent insurable property to the value of $200,000,000.00! We commend to their attention the old—

Ætna Insurance Co.
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
INCORPORATED A. D. 1819.

CASH CAPITAL,$4,000,000.00
TOTAL ASSETS, January 1, 1887,9,568,839.56
NET SURPLUS, January 1, 1887,3,450,221.37
L. J. HENDEE,President.
J. GOODNOW, Sec’y.WM. B. CLARKE, Asst. Sec’y.

Agencies in all the principal towns and cities in the United States.

The Ætna stands confessedly at the head of the Fire Insurance Companies of America, if not of the World. In the sixty-eight years since it began business it has paid over $60,000,000 in losses, going through the trying ordeals of the great Chicago and Boston conflagrations and paying every claim promptly. So strong is its present financial condition that the company could go through another Chicago fire without disturbing a dividend.

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