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Contact: Mike Weinstein, 505-425-8025, ext. 0
Join Fort Union in downtown Las Vegas for a program about the hardy, but little-known U.S. Army Bicycle Corps, a group of Buffalo Soldiers who tested bicycles as a possible replacement for horses. The free program will be presented by Park Ranger Mike Weinstein on Thursday evening, September 19 at 7:00 pm. The program will take place at the CCHP/Santa Fe Trail Interpretive Center at 116 Bridge Street in Las Vegas, New Mexico.When bicycles became a popular new technology in the 1890s, a few Army officers thought the two-wheeled vehicles, needing no food or water, could replace the horse. The Bicycle Corps fared well in two years of arduous testing in the rugged terrain of the western United States. But the arrival of the
internal combustion engine just a few years later was the death knell for the bicycle as a military vehicle.
This program is free in partnership with the Las Vegas Citizens Committee for Historic Preservation.
Last updated: September 10, 2019