Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781600603402
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A biography of Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, focusing on how his boyhood education set the stage for his athletic achievements which gained him international fame and Olympic gold medals. Author's note details Thorpe's life after college.
Author: Steve Sheinkin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596439548
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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America's favorite sport and Native American history collide in this thrilling true story of the legendary Carlisle Indians football team and their rise from underdogs to champions.
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430129921
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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"This production offers an engaging, original way for children to learn about a Native American hero. Renowned Abenaki author Bruchac has selected interesting facts that reveal how a young boy is transformed into brave Crazy Horse. ..." AudioFile Magazine
Author: John H. Drury
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439611319
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Through an extraordinary collection of photographs, Jim Thorpe tells the story of not only the athlete but its famed coal-mining industry. What was originally named Mauch Chunk, Jim Thorpe was established on the Lehigh River as a shipping depot for anthracite coal in 1818 by Josiah White, a Philadelphia Quaker and brilliant engineer, and his trusted business partner, Erskine Hazard. By 1829, White and Hazard had founded the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company and built an efficient transportation system that moved coal nine miles over the mountains to Mauch Chunk by Switchback Gravity Railroad, and 46 miles along the Lehigh Canal to Easton. With the arrival of the railroads, the Switchback became a major tourist attraction. As rail excursionists descended on Mauch Chunk to experience a hair-raising ride on America's first roller coaster and enjoy the magnificent scenery, the coal shipping town, billed by the railroads as "the Switzerland of America," became a tourist destination second in popularity only to Niagara Falls. In a story stranger than fiction, the town exchanged its name for the name of Jim Thorpe when the 1912 Olympic hero was laid to rest there in 1954. Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) tells the story of the athlete and his burial, the Switchback Gravity Railroad, the Lehigh Canal, the social scene, and the town's Victorian legacy.
Author: Carrie Golus
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0822587297
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Think you know all there is to know about Jim Thorpe? Well, did you know that: ? His Sauk and Fox name was Wa-Tho-Huk, which means Bright Path? ? He broke his high schools high jump record on his very first jump? ? On the football field, he could run fast enough to catch his own punt? Jim Thorpe has been called the greatest athlete of the twentieth century. He excelled in football, baseball, and track and field. He won two Olympic gold medals in 1912. But his career was marred by controversy. And as a Native American, he faced much prejudice. Read all about his struggles and his triumphs.
Author: Art Coulson
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1543504132
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Author: Jennifer Fandel
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 142961773X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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A graphic novel biography of Jim Thorpe, the American athlete who won both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the 1912 Olympics as well as excelling in other sports.
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781544429151
Category : Athletes
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Author: Lars Anderson
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 140006600X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Describes the seminal November 1912 football matchup between college football powerhouse Army--which included cadet Dwight Eisenhower--and the Native American team from Carlisle, a team that was coached by the inventive Pop Warner and included the legendary Jim Thorpe. 50,000 first printing.
Author: S. D. Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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A biography of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six soldiers to raise the United States flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, an event immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.
