Image caption: As she rode around the globe, Annie Londonderry encountered many dangers, from a drove of pigs to a war in Asia. Image credit: Michelle D’Urbano for Atlas Obscura. Article by Tom Ward. Atlas Obscura – March 18, 2022.
It started, as so many things do, with a bet. It ended with a broken arm, a $13,000 purse, and two fingers in the eyes of the patriarchy. “A Boston newspaper woman about twenty-seven years old…will undertake to travel around the world, and at the end of fifteen months return to Boston,” the New York Times reported on February 25, 1894. […]
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