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Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872The bridge at Medicine Bow
An unsafe bridge, a vote of the passengers, one sensible suggestion ignored, and a crossing at full speed.
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- USAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
A sermon in the sleeping car
Three hours held up by bison, and an hour in which Passepartout was the whole of a congregation.
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- USAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
A sledge with a sail
Two hundred miles of frozen prairie, a sail, a west wind and Mr Mudge. The fastest thing I rode in America had no engine.
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- USAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
Fort Kearney
A duel interrupted, a train stopped, Passepartout taken. I spent a night and a morning I had not budgeted for.
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