Wheels through Wyoming
Chronicles of Bicycling in the Equality State
25th Infantry Bicycle Corps
In the late 1890's, an experiment took place through the plains and mountains of Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska and Missouri to test the bicycle as a military transportation device. Such an experiment was taken on by a regiment of black men in 1897.
1987 25th Infantry Bicycle CorpsLieutenant James Moss and the men on their wheels. | Yellowstone National ParkThe corps stops to visit Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone. | The effort to take the picture!The men haul their bikes up to the terraces of the Hot Springs. |

Reenactment by University of Montana students in 1974
Montana's Buffalo Soldier's Bike ride to Missouri


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The Safety Bicycle of the late 1800's
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The Bully Boy (Currier and Ives) 1881
