Pedestrianism : when watching people walk was America's favorite sport /
"Strange as it sounds, during the 1870s and 1880s, America's most popular spectator sport wasn't baseball, football, or horse racing--it was competitive walking. Inside sold-out arenas, competitors walked around dirt tracks almost nonstop for six straight days (never on Sunday), riski...
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Chicago :
Chicago Review Press,
2014.
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