At long last, the painstaking work of piecing the Weston material  together reaches online publication.  If you do an internet search on "Edward Payson Weston," you will find that much of the material repeats a few main sources, such as Tom Talpey.

Most of the Wiki-Walk material on Weston is fresh, original research.  A great debt goes to P.S. Marshall for his indispensable book, "King of the Peds."  Then there are the New York Times press clippings from "The Gentle Art of Walking" (1972).  Some other Weston material is slowly surfacing, which can be found in Google Books.   The Bain Collection, a predecessor of the Associated Press, has a remarkable treasure trove of photographs.

The research effort is not merely one of discovery.  It involves putting together puzzle pieces with incomplete parts.  The newspaper accounts of another age spoke to a different audience, with different grammar and different priorities.

Photograph credit: New York Public Library.  Larger version at this link:  Weston Slideshow. Hope the material intrigues you as much as it does me.  Enjoy!  Charlie

For more details, see these links:

• Weston Walking Style & Technique
• Weston Vital Statistics & Health Habits
• The Pedestrian
• Weston's 1861 Walk
• Weston on Competition Rules
• Weston & Pedestrian Era Competition Rules
• Weston's Comebacks
• Weston Slideshow

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