On this episode of Our American Stories, in 1890, Nellie Bly set out to do what seemed impossible: circle the globe in less than eighty days. Known to her readers as a bold reporter who once went undercover in a mental asylum, Bly was already a household name. But this journey, inspired by Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, would make her a legend. Traveling by ship, train, and carriage, she raced against time and returned to New York in just seventy-two days.

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