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Show I '0: o 'J A . s.? I' TUdax J)(ij-' 1 I tie fr i LV:' I told you that one day I'd have to do a two garter. Here it Is, and for once I'm not going to tell you who it is until next issue. See If you can guess! "Fred" was born In Holt, Missouri. After graduating from the State University, he and his friend, Wirt, set out on their bicycles with just $2 in their pockets, determined to see the West. Fred kept an account of his travels. The first part -his adventures from Missouri Mis-souri to New Mexico, are likely In another diary, somewhere, but his travels from New Mexico through Colorado, Wyoming and finally fi-nally his settling in this area, are contained in two tiny diaries. The first, a small black book with a gold embossed em-bossed eagle - stating "Compliments of J. Calish-er Calish-er and Co., Roswell, New Mexico", begins with a check list of items needed for his trip: A cyclometer $2, lamp $4, 2 sweaters $6, and a canteen. can-teen. Let's travel along with Fred and see what it was like in 1895 pedaling a bike over . strange mountains and deserts, des-erts, and being a newcomer to the Western Frontier. "May 1: Arrived Trinidad (Colo.). Got to see John Bur-lln, Bur-lln, the champion rider of the place. Went on to Rouse. Rouse Is a hard place. May 2: Left Rouse, 7 a.m., good roads, wind in our favor, fa-vor, downhill nearly all the way. Did a great deal of coasting. Arrived Pueblo at 2:30, rode 32 more miles by night. May 4: Arrived inSedalia. . Went the 25 miles by Denver by noon. Left Denver at 4:30 and came to Brighton. WE HAVE 'ABOUT GONE BROKE! May 5: We saw more wheels together today than we ever expect to see again. It being Sunday, nearly all of Denver's wheelmen came to Brighton. They came to see the finish of a 12-12 mile race of one of the clubs. After Af-ter noon we started to hunt for a job, which we found In about an hour - shoveling in the ditch. We kept this job for one week. We worked so fast it was Impossible to keep us in work. May 13: Got our pay. Went to town for dinner. I got my ! samples for pants which I sent for when I first came to Brighton, and I struck out to sell pants. Worked all evening eve-ning - never sold any. May 15: I drummed the town of Lafeyette in the morning and went to Boulder after dinner. Sold one pair of pants and put up at the hotel. ho-tel. Here I spent the Mexican half-dollar given to me by Parsons as a keepsake -passed it for an American half. May 16: It snowed hard all forenoon and made it awful darned muddy. I got broke here! May 17: The sun rose clear and warm. After breakfast I pulled a freight. Went to Longmont, but never sold a darned thing. Made two sales In Erie and made $1.25. May 18: Went to Lupton and tried to sell, but In vain. I had 5? to buy my dinner which was cheese and crackers. I tried to get a job teaching school, but they said they would not hire a MAN teacher under any circumstances. (ERA - take note!) May 21: Pulled out early and went to Greeley. Roads awful muddy It rained all morning, but made the roads good as they were sandy and uphill. I ate dinner at a Section Sec-tion House - fixed my tire. So cold I came near freezing freez-ing while repairing. Rained all evening. I put up at ahorse ranch. I was all mud. Still 10 miles from Cheyenne." Next week we'll finish the trip and we'll see how many of you guessed the Identity of our intrepid traveler. A few hints: He finally did get a school - taught for several years In this area, was Principal Prin-cipal In Milford, was Supt. of Beaver County Schools, Justice of the Peace, County Surveyor. Enough hints. See you next week! |