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Author | : Michael Ward |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476613184 |
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Ellison “Tarzan” Brown was one of America’s premier marathon runners during the 1930s and 1940s. This volume tells the story of his life from the beginning of his budding career in the early 1930s through his untimely death in 1975. With his unorthodox approach to the sport and his spectacular finishes, Tarzan Brown quickly became something of a legend in racing. Inevitably, he became the subject of stories that were not always entirely factual—and sometimes not very flattering. This biography seeks to present an accurate, unbiased account of Brown’s life. The reminiscences of his close friends, family and even his rivals paint a vivid picture of the man and his career. The book covers in considerable depth events such as Brown’s trip to the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany and his role in the naming of the infamous Heartbreak Hill on the course of the Boston Marathon. Completing the picture is a look at the more personal aspects of Brown’s life, such as his struggle to support his young family, and an examination of his Narragansett Indian heritage. The final chapter discusses the misconceptions surrounding Brown’s accidental death outside a bar in 1975.
Author | : Michael Ward |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2006-07-05 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786424168 |
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Ellison "Tarzan" Brown was one of America's premier marathon runners during the 1930s and 1940s. This volume tells the story of his life from the beginning of his budding career in the early 1930s through his untimely death in 1975. With his unorthodox approach to the sport and his spectacular finishes, Tarzan Brown quickly became something of a legend in racing. Inevitably, he became the subject of stories that were not always entirely factual--and sometimes not very flattering. This biography seeks to present an accurate, unbiased account of Brown's life. The reminiscences of his close friends, family and even his rivals paint a vivid picture of the man and his career. The book covers in considerable depth events such as Brown's trip to the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany and his role in the naming of the infamous Heartbreak Hill on the course of the Boston Marathon. Completing the picture is a look at the more personal aspects of Brown's life, such as his struggle to support his young family, and an examination of his Narragansett Indian heritage. The final chapter discusses the misconceptions surrounding Brown's accidental death outside a bar in 1975.
Author | : Tom Derderian |
Publisher | : Triumph Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1600789390 |
Download The Boston Marathon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offering an inside look at the most famous marathon in the world, this exploration traces the Boston Marathon's 26.2-mile route from the starting line on narrow Main Street in Hopkinton to the Boylston Street finish line in downtown Boston, bringing to life the history, personalities, pivotal moments, and individual character of each city the race traverses. The Boston Marathon includes well-researched briefs on topics including Metcalf's Mill at Ashland, the unmarked starting point of the first race in 1897, the infamous 1967 battle over Kathrine Switzer's attempt to compete five years before women were allowed, and other vital race-day elements. The book also includes a tribute to the victims of the tragic 2013 bombing near the finish line. This is a supremely entertaining glimpse at the history of the greatest running event in the world—from wacky entrants to hard-fisted managers, tortured disappointments, and glorious triumph.
Author | : J.F. "Buck" Burshears |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2014-04-18 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1476783179 |
Download American Indian Beadwork Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A handicraft guide to American Indian beadwork for those seeking the fundamentals of construction and ideas of design—fully illustrated throughout. American Indian Beadwork includes: -Directions for beading stitches -Directions for making and stringing a loom -Fifty-four black-and-white photographs of actual Indian beadwork -Thirteen full-color pages of 132 authentic Indian patterns for your own beadwork
Author | : Candace S. Greene |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803222114 |
Download The Year the Stars Fell Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winter counts?pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past?marked each year with a picture of a memorable event.øTheøLakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include ?the year the stars fell,? the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of 1833?34. This volume is an unprecedented assemblage of information on the important collection of Lakota winter counts at the Smithsonian, a core resource for the study of Lakota history and culture. Fourteen winter counts are presented in detail, with a chapter devoted to the newly discovered Rosebud Winter Count. Together these counts constitute a visual chronicle of over two hundred years of Lakota experience as recorded by Native historians. ø A visually stunning book, The Year the Stars Fell features full-color illustrations of the fourteen winter counts plus more than 900 detailed images of individual pictographs. Explanations, provided by their nineteenth-century Lakota recorders, are arranged chronologically to facilitate comparison among counts. The book provides ready access to primary source material, and serves as an essential reference work for scholars as well as an invaluable historical resource for Native communities.
Author | : Arthur Caswell Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Download The Indian how Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A guide to over seventy crafts and activities of various Indian tribes revealing many facts about their everyday lives and customs.
Author | : William Tomkins |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2012-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486130940 |
Download Indian Sign Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Learn to communicate without words with these authentic signs. Learn over 525 signs, developed by the Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and others. Book also contains 290 pictographs of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes.
Author | : Pamela Cooper |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1998-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780815605201 |
Download The American Marathon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Boston established a footrace but New York City created a marathon culture that annually draws tens of thousands of runners to each of the major American events. The American Marathon is the first in-depth study of the marathon as a cultural performance that has as much power to unite communities across lines of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as it does to empower individuals. This book encompasses more than a century, from the fledgling days of the footrace in the 1890s to the popular contemporary marathons that have become corporate-sponsored institutions. Run in New York City in 1896 and continued in Boston for the next ten years, the marathon quickly became the event of the working-class athletes, particularly Irish Americans. Other urban ethnic groups-Italians, Jews, and African Americans who were unwelcome into the elite WASP athletic dubs-formed their own running organizations. Once emblematic of the immigrant experience, the marathon evolved to express middle-class nationalism as these immigrants were being assimilated. During the 1930s the Great Depression restricted footracing, and anti-Semitism left important coaches and runners without access to team support. The New York Pioneer Club, begun in 1936 as an African-American team, brought the tremendous energy of post World War II Harlem to the American marathon of the 1950s. Besides examining the ethnic influence on marathoning, Cooper also explores the impact of the Cold War on this sport, when fitness and endurance became matters of national pride. She shows how the Road Runners Club of America first brought women and large numbers of participant runners into long-distance footraces and, finally, how corporate sponsorship and direct payments to athletes profoundly changed the nature of this once-amateur sport.
Author | : C. Richard King |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 727 |
Release | : 2015-03-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317464028 |
Download Native Americans in Sports Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers full coverage of Native American athletes and athletics from historical, cultual and indigenous perspectives, from before European intervention to the 21st century. There are entries devoted to broader cultural themes, and how these affect and are affected by the sport.
Author | : Randy Roberts |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674015043 |
Download The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub is a collection of original essays about the people and places of Boston sports that live in the minds and memories of Bostonians and all Americans. Each chapter focuses on the games and the athletes, but also on which sports have defined Boston and Bostonians.