From Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle, by Karl Kron, chapter XVII, “Kentucky and Its Mammoth Cave.” Published by Karl Kron, The University Building, Washington Square, New York, 1887. Copyrighted, 1884, by Henry Streeter, Towanda, Penn. Originally appeared in The Wheelman, October, 1883, pp. 30-37 as “The Hills of Kentucky.” Karl Kron was the pen name of Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg.
Bicycle illustration from 1883 Columbia Bicycles catalog (Pope Manufacturing Company).
Map illustrations from The Bicycle Road Map of the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky and Vicinity of Louisville, Ky., 1899. Dedicated to the "Jolly Good Fellows of the A.A.B.C." Copyright 1899 by Webster Gazlay.