 The two tall athletes, both 6 feet 4½ inches, walked 1,800 miles (2,700 km) together with many adventures and strode into Vancouver station to a waiting crowd at midnight September 24, 1906.Jackman kept a little diary of the daily happenings and took 250 pictures.That diary, the pictures that survived, and the newspaper stories about the walk led to a book, "Transcontinental Pedestrians", published in October 2006 by Fitzhenry & Whiteside, of Toronto.