PA 43 A

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PA 43 A

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Note: Edward Payson Weston.  Weston was a champion walker whose first long-distance trek followed a lost bet.  He wagered that Douglas would win the 1860 election and promised to walk (from Boston) to Lincoln's January inaugration in Washington if he was wrong.  Weston was a native of Providence, RI and had short careers in the circus as well as minstrelsy before gaining his fame as a speed walker.  In many ways Weston's athletism mirrored the career of folk hero, Sam Patch, a Pawtucket, RI factory worker whose high dives were legendary.  See Paul E. Johnson, Sam Patch, The Famous Jumper, New York:  Hill and Wang, 2014.  See also Nick Harris, Helen Harris, & Paul Marshall, A Man in a Hurry:  The Extraordinary Life and Times of Edward Payson Weston, The World's Greatest Walker, London:  Decoubertin, 2012.

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C.D. Fredricks & Co. 587 Broadway, New York

Date

1867

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Citation

C.D. Fredricks & Co. 587 Broadway, New York, “PA 43 A,” Cotton Histories, explorations in blackface minstrelsy, accessed March 28, 2024, https://cottonhistories.com/items/show/1153.

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