When Edward Payson Weston struck a bet with a friend on the 1860 US presidential election, part of the stake was a jar of peanuts. The outcome of the wager was anything but. Weston unwittingly ...
We may think of baseball as America's national pastime, but in the 1870s and 1880s there was another sports craze sweeping the nation: competitive walking. "Watching people walk was America's favorite ...
Long-distance walking, known as pedestrianism, was a popular sport in both Britain and America in the 1870s and 1880s. "Wobbles" or "go-as-you-please" races were gradually replaced by faster and more ...
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