About this book
The year is 1919 and Charles Kenilworth ("C.K.") Shepherd, a former British Royal Air Force Captain and World War I veteran, has decided to travel to the United States to see the country from the back of a brand new Henderson 4-cylinder motorcycle. In this accounting of his adventures across the country, he has "endeavored to portray America and Americans exactly as I found them and as they appealed to me" in this "narrative of quite an ordinary, unaspiring, British motorcyclist". - Summary by Barry Eads
1Chapter 1 - Traffic in New York
2Chapter 2 - New York to Philadelphia
3Chapter 3 - Philadelphia to Washington
4Chapter 4 - Exceeding the Speed Limit
5Chapter 5 - Across the Alleghanies
6Chapter 6 - The Dixie Highway
7Chapter 7 - Cincinnati and Onwards
8Chapter 8 - Indiana and Illinois
9Chapter 9 - Stormy Weather in Missouri
10Chapter 10 - Results of a Breakdown
11Chapter 11 - The Santa Fé Trail
12Chapter 12 - The Royal Gorge of Arkansas
13Chapter 13 - In Southern Colorado
14Chapter 14 - New Mexico
15Chapter 15 - Santa Fé
16Chapter 16 - The Rio Grande Valley
17Chapter 17 - The Petrified Forest of Arizona
18Chapter 18 - The Grand Canyon
19Chapter 19 - The Mohave Desert
20Chapter 20 - I Reach the Pacific Coast
21Chapter 21 - Los Angeles to San Francisco
22Epilogue
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