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Title Wheels on Ice Stories of Cycling in Alaska
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (320 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Introduction -- From Dawson to Nome on a Bicycle -- A Broken Chain and a Busted Pedal -- Cycling the Arctic -- Part 2 -- Introduction -- Iditabike, 1987 -- Iditasport Extreme -- Iditasport, 1991 -- Hellbikes on Ice -- Biking the Haul Road, 1986 -- Pribilofs by Bike, 1994 -- Rough-Terrain Unicycling, 1997 -- Part 3 -- Introduction -- The Wind Grooms Our Trails -- Skagway to Nome -- The Government Sign -- Last Ride of the Season -- A Winter Bike Commute -- The Bike Thief
The Killer Hill -- Cryo-Cave! -- The Iditarod Trail and Me -- That One Magnetek Time I Jumped Over Five Cars -- When There's No One Left to Fight -- The Books I Carried -- Going Long, Going Solo -- Physical Education -- There Is No Tomorrow -- A Positively Memorable Mountain Bike Ride(ish) -- Back in Alaska to Share the Story of the Roads -- Nulato Hills -- Growing Old with My Bicycle -- The Magic Bus on the Stampede -- Tell 'Em about It -- Acknowledgments -- Source Acknowledgments -- Contributors
Summary Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos have assembled a wide range of Alaska cycling voices, from the Gold Rush prospecting cyclists of the early 1900s to the ultra-endurance cyclists and bike packers of today
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Cycling -- Alaska -- History
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
SPORTS & RECREATION / Cycling.
Cycling
Alaska
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Cherry, Jessica, editor.
Soos, Frank, editor.
ISBN 1496233905
9781496233905
9781496233899
1496233891