[Gutenberg 44745] • The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches

From velocipede to cart, wagon, stage coach, paddle wheeler, canals, and finally (and mostly), railroads, a collection of brief essays on travel in the United States. With five illustrations signed Beale Del, Baker Co. Engravers.

The dedication:

"Only this: The Wheels in this book ran, during the summer of 1873, through the columns of THE NEW YORK EXAMINER AND CHRONICLE, to '"the head and front of whose offending,"' the REV. EDWARD BRIGHT, D.D., who gave those wheels the '"right of way,"' the old rolling stock and a miscellaneous cargo is Cordially Consigned."