Across the country on bicycle -- in 1923

 Lois Yingling had heard about the trip all of her life, the time her father, Arthur Miller, and a friend, Earl Hagerman, lit out for the territories, riding their bicycles across the country. It was family lore, a legend passed down by the generations.
She didn't know much about the trip -- until recently -- and didn't know much about her father, only that he was an athletic young man and that people thought highly of him.
Arthur and Earl were buddies, growing up in the same West York neighborhood, Arthur in the 1400 block of West Princess Street and Earl in the 1800 block of West Philadelphia. And in May 1923, they decided to hop on their bikes and ride west until they ran out of land.
Yingling, now 83 and of Springettsbury Township, doesn't know why her father, who'd have been about 18 at the time, and his friend embarked on the trip. Maybe it was a sense of adventure. Maybe they were passing into adulthood and saw this as their chance to do something so seemingly insane. Maybe they just wanted to see whether they could do it.  By MIKE ARGENTO


Across the country on bicycle -- in 1923 - The York Daily Record