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the Norwegian-American Historical Association, St. Olaf College, Minnesota, interview, 1996. Dr. Hustvedt stated unequivocally that Helga’s choice to leave home would ignite strong disapproval among their Norwegian neighbors. The belief that women belonged in the home was paramount in the 1890s among Norwegian families, nor should one “draw attention” to oneself as Helga needed to do to raise money along the route. Her actions would be considered “outrageous.”

2. “Are Walking for Wages,” Walla Walla Union, May 17, 1896, p. 4.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. “Women Globe Trotters,” Weekly Bedrock Democrat, May 25, 1896, p. 1.

6. “Umatilla Reservation and Its Inhabitants,” Pendleton Tribune, March 26, 1898, p. 5.

7. C.A. Angelo, Sketches of Travel in Oregon and Idaho (Fairfield, Wash.: Ye Galleon Press, 1988), 48.

8. “Coast to Coast,” Minneapolis Times, June 2, 1897, p. 5.; “Women Walkers,” Plymouth Republic, November 19, 1896, p. 6.

9. “Women Globe Trotters,” p. 1.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. “It Continues to Rise,” Idaho Daily Statesman, June 3, 1896, p. 2.

14. “On a Long Walk,” Idaho Daily Statesman, June 5, 1896, p. 3.

15. “For Equal Suffrage,” Idaho Daily Statesman, June 6, 1896, p. 3.

16. “On a Long Walk,” p. 3.

9 | HOT, HUNGRY, AND HOPEFUL

1. “Coast to Coast,” Minneapolis Times, June 2, 1897, p. 5.

2. “Women Pedestrians,” Daily Sun Leader, August 27, 1896, p. 4.

3. “From Spokane to New York,” Deseret Evening News, July 11, 1896, p. 5.

4. “Women Walkers,” Minneapolis Tribune, June 2, 1897, p. 4.

5. T.T. Williams, Refuge (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), p. 70.

6. “From Spokane to New York,” p. 5.

7. Ibid.

8. John S. McCormick, “Temple Square,” Utah History Encyclopedia, http://historytogo.utah.gov/slcl.html [2002].

9. “From Spokane to New York,” p. 5.

10. Ibid.

11. “Women Should Have Leg Freedom,” The Chicago Tribune, November 1, 1896, p. 1.

12. Ibid.

13. M. Knauff, “The Move Towards Rational Dress,” http://www.mpmbooks.com/amelia/rational.htm, [October 17, 2001].

14. “Women and Short Skirts,” Sun, April 30, 1897, p. 3.

15. J.J. Lorence, Enduring Visions Readings (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1993), 87.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

10 | NIGHT TERRORS

1. “Fair Tramps from the West,” Lebanon Evening News, December 19, 1896, p. 1.

2. Ibid.

3. “Walked from Pacific Coast,” New York Twice-a-Week World, December 24, 1896, p. 6.

4. “Fair Tramps from the West,” p. 1.

5. C. Moulton, Roadside History of Wyoming (Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 1995), 277.

6. Ibid., 243.

7. “Women Pedestrians,” Daily Sun Leader, August 27, 1896, p. 4.

8. “Women Walkers,” Minneapolis Tribune, June 2, 1897, p. 4.

9. “Walked from Pacific Coast,” p. 6.

10. P. Glad, McKinley, Bryan and the People (New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964).

11. L. Ashby, William Jennings Bryan: Champion of Democracy (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987), 57.

12. Ibid., 62.

13. Ibid., 64.

14. Ibid., 61.

15. “Women Walkers,” p. 4.

11 | “NEW WOMEN’S” ACTIONS

AND OLD VICTORIAN ATTITUDES

1. “Untitled,” Greeley Tribune, September 3, 1896, p. 1.

2. Ibid.

3. “Women Walkers Reach Plymouth,” Plymouth Republic, November 19, 1896, p. 6.

4. “Walking to Win,” Des Moines Register, October 17, 1896, p. 2.

5. “Coast to Coast,” Minneapolis Times, June 2, 1897, p. 5.

6. Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis, Leaning into the Wind (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997), 18.

7. “Fair Tramps from the West,” Lebanon Evening News, December 19, 1896, p. 1.

8. “Came from Spokane Afoot,” New York Times, December 24, 1896, p. 9.

9. J. Frost et al., “Why Did Colorado Suffragists Succeed in Winning the Right to Vote in 1893 and Not in 1877?” http://womhist.binghamton.edu/colosuff/intro.htm [June 2002].

10. Dictionary of American History, Rev. Ed., s.v. “Cripple Creek Strikes.”

11. “Women Walkers Reach Plymouth,” p. 6.

12. “Walked from Pacific Coast,” New York Twice-a-Week World, December 24, 1896, p. 6.

13. Dahn Shaulis, “Pedestriennes: Newsworthy but Controversial Women in Sporting Entertainment,