In 1896 Lt.
James Moss, second lieutenant at Fort Missoula, Montana, had a revolutionary idea: that bicycles, a relatively new innovation, could be employed by the military to replace cavalry horses for certain operations.
Bikes did not need food, water, or rest; they would not die; they would never disobey their rider; and they were nearly noiseless.
The eager young lieutenant set out to test this idea and prove the worth of the bicycle in army campaigns.
| Idea | That bicycles a relatively new innovation could be employed by the military to replace cavalry horses for certain operations |
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Mountain Press Publishing Company The great bicycle experiment: the army's historic black bicycle corps, 1896-97, paperback/kay moore
