Bicycle Dreams Joseph Michels

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In 1889, twenty-five-year old Lemuel Dearce heads for Chicago where he gets swept up in the country’s new craze: bicycles. Hiring on as a worker in a bicycle constructing plant, he pros the technology and seeks to implement it as a bicycle repairman. This takes him to Minneapolis in 1893, a city in the full grip of bicycle mania. By 1910, married with three children, he watches his dream of a career in bicycles collapse as the automobile takes center stage. Lemuel then gets caught up in the widespread exuberance for scientific farming of arid lands out west. He brings his family to eastern Montana where he files a homestead assert on a desolate patch of prairie. Hardships and separations plague the family. But by 1917 he manages to secure legal title to the land, only to see it devastated by the drought of 1918.With his dreams in tatters, Lemuel once again searches for a new beginning.

About the AuthorJoseph W. Michels is the author of a lot of publications of archaeological interest arising from an earlier career as a university professor. The author presently resides in San Francisco where he pursues his new career as a novelist. His firstborn work, Outbound From Virginia, was published in 2007. Bicycle Dreams is his second work.