Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556097727
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Montana and Other State Greats (Biographies)
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556097727
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556097727
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Hawaii & Other State Greats
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556095775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556095775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Hawaii and Other State Greats
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556095767
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556095767
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Montana, Its Story and Biography
Author: Tom Stout
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montana
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montana
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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Montana
Author: Keith Dunnavant
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250017866
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Rich in anecdotal detail, insight and context, Montana is a powerful story about a man who was defined by his intense competitiveness, and how this intangibly helped him become one of the ionic figures in football history. As long as football is played, Joe Montana will be synonymous with the heart-pounding rally. Seemingly impervious to the pressure of a scoreboard deficit, the quarterback known as Joe Cool brought a steadying calm to every huddle, especially when the situation seemed especially dire. His reputation for miracles began to take root at the University of Notre Dame. In the 1979 Cotton Bowl, he overcame the flu, hypothermia and a 22-point deficit to lead the Fighting Irish to a stunning victory over Houston. This narrative continued in the NFL, as he engineered 31 fourth-quarter comebacks, including victories known in professional football lore as The Catch and The Drive, forever casting his career in a heroic glow. While leading the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl championships over a nine-year period, establishing a new standard for passing efficiency, and twice earning the league's Most Valuable Player award, Montana became the signature quarterback of the 1980s and one of the greatest ever to play the game. Overcoming his own limitations, which caused him to be underrated coming out of Notre Dame, he quickly mastered Bill Walsh's West Coast Offense, and thereby, helped reinvent offensive football. But it was rarely easy. Like the rallies he so often produced, his life was filled with the sort of tension that made his journey seem routinely dramatic: The father who pushed him. The high school coach who challenged his commitment. The college coach who very nearly squandered him. The back surgery that almost ended his career. The younger athlete who tried to take his job. In Montana, acclaimed author Keith Dunnavant sketches the definitive portrait of a man who repeatedly defied the odds, on and off the field.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250017866
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Rich in anecdotal detail, insight and context, Montana is a powerful story about a man who was defined by his intense competitiveness, and how this intangibly helped him become one of the ionic figures in football history. As long as football is played, Joe Montana will be synonymous with the heart-pounding rally. Seemingly impervious to the pressure of a scoreboard deficit, the quarterback known as Joe Cool brought a steadying calm to every huddle, especially when the situation seemed especially dire. His reputation for miracles began to take root at the University of Notre Dame. In the 1979 Cotton Bowl, he overcame the flu, hypothermia and a 22-point deficit to lead the Fighting Irish to a stunning victory over Houston. This narrative continued in the NFL, as he engineered 31 fourth-quarter comebacks, including victories known in professional football lore as The Catch and The Drive, forever casting his career in a heroic glow. While leading the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl championships over a nine-year period, establishing a new standard for passing efficiency, and twice earning the league's Most Valuable Player award, Montana became the signature quarterback of the 1980s and one of the greatest ever to play the game. Overcoming his own limitations, which caused him to be underrated coming out of Notre Dame, he quickly mastered Bill Walsh's West Coast Offense, and thereby, helped reinvent offensive football. But it was rarely easy. Like the rallies he so often produced, his life was filled with the sort of tension that made his journey seem routinely dramatic: The father who pushed him. The high school coach who challenged his commitment. The college coach who very nearly squandered him. The back surgery that almost ended his career. The younger athlete who tried to take his job. In Montana, acclaimed author Keith Dunnavant sketches the definitive portrait of a man who repeatedly defied the odds, on and off the field.
A Biographical History, with Portraits, of Prominent Men of the Great West. .
Author: John A. Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Born to be
Author: Taylor Gordon
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803270527
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Famous in the 1920s as a singer of Negro spirituals, Taylor Gordon was born into the only black family living in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. His rough-and-ready upbringing in that mining boom town is warmly remembered in Born to Be. Gordon describes with panache his early years in the Old West, where he was not aware of racial prejudice. As a boy he carried messages from civic leaders to the town madam, served drinks to the “sports,” and scurried up plenty of excitement. The book shows him leaving Montana for the East, experiencing the arrows of bigotry, chauffeuring for circus impresario John Ringling, and forging a singing career that won him a place in the Harlem Renaissance and an appointment with British royalty. Gordon finally returned to White Sulphur Springs—after an extraordinary career riddled with misfortune. But he was still flourishing at the age of thirty-six, when the autobiographical Born to Be ends.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803270527
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Famous in the 1920s as a singer of Negro spirituals, Taylor Gordon was born into the only black family living in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. His rough-and-ready upbringing in that mining boom town is warmly remembered in Born to Be. Gordon describes with panache his early years in the Old West, where he was not aware of racial prejudice. As a boy he carried messages from civic leaders to the town madam, served drinks to the “sports,” and scurried up plenty of excitement. The book shows him leaving Montana for the East, experiencing the arrows of bigotry, chauffeuring for circus impresario John Ringling, and forging a singing career that won him a place in the Harlem Renaissance and an appointment with British royalty. Gordon finally returned to White Sulphur Springs—after an extraordinary career riddled with misfortune. But he was still flourishing at the age of thirty-six, when the autobiographical Born to Be ends.
Biographical
Author: Walter Barlow Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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An Illustrated History of the State of Montana
Author: Joaquin Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montana
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montana
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Paperbound Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1544
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