In the summer of 1897, 20 Black U.S. Army infantrymen cycled 1,900 miles on fixed-gear, state-of-the-art bikes from Fort Missoula, Mont., to St. Louis.The Army ordered the grueling expedition to see whether soldiers could form a bicycle corps.Newspapers chronicled their progress as they pedaled 50 miles a day in mud and sand, through Montana's snowy mountains and across Nebraska's burning plains.
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