Chadeayne's transcontinental journey took place between September 13 and October 30, 1905. He described the roads even east of the Mississippi as "unspeakably vile ... seas of mud or oceans of sand", taking exactly two weeks to arrive in Chicago. Chadeayne's time of 47.5 days beat the previous record of 51 days set by George A. Wyman two years earlier. As for Wayman Chadeayne found there were insufficient roads in America at the time so he rode on railroad tracks for six or seven hundred miles of the journey. In the portion from Ogden, Utah to San Francisco he was nearly killed by a train.
