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Jim Thorpe Mauch Chunk
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Author : John H. Drury
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Jim Thorpe Mauch Chunk written by John H. Drury and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Mauch Chunk, now 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 forty-six 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 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. Through an extraordinary collection of photographs, 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.
Mauch Chunk Jim Thorpe
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Author : Drury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-12
Mauch Chunk Jim Thorpe written by Drury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12 with categories.
Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here
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Author : Richard Benyo
language : en
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
Release Date : 2008
Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here written by Richard Benyo and has been published by University of Scranton Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Boys categories.
Jim Thorp never slept in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, the town formerly known as Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk. But through a combination of ambition, necessity, and sheer luck, these small towns became the final resting place of the great American Indian Olympic champion and in 1954 they legally changed their name to permanently commemorate his burial. Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here, a treasury of tales from a 1950s boyhood in a town surrounded by the mountains of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal region, is a passport to a lost land of childhood adventure, featuring an ancient river, old mine shafts, canal locks, hobos camps, the remains of millionaires' mansions--and the hilarious antics of Richard Benyo and his buddies in the South Street Gang. This memoir brings the 1950s alive--just as The Little Rascals did for the Depression--with its renderings of afternoons spent with baseball cards, cardboard forts, BB guns, playground bullying. and that first illicit sip of beer. Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here is a memorable, nostalgic account of all the trials, tribulations, and the rites of passage of growing up in post-war America.
Jim Thorpe In The 20th Century
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Author : Joan Sewell Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Release Date : 2005-10
Jim Thorpe In The 20th Century written by Joan Sewell Gilbert and has been published by Arcadia Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10 with History categories.
Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century examines the causes and effects of a community's decision to relinquish its Native American name Mauch Chunk ("Bear Mountain") to become the town of Jim Thorpe. In the 19th century, Mauch Chunk rode a wave of prosperity, as coal shipping and tourism turned ordinary men into millionaires. In the 20th century, the mainstays of the town's economy began to tumble like dominoes: mule-drawn coal boats could not compete with the iron horse, ending Mauch Chunk's days as a canal town by 1922; the touristattracting Switchback Gravity Railroad, unable to afford parts, closed in 1932; the coal mines and working railroads collapsed, as industry, home heating, and trucking turned to petroleum. Downand-out by the mid-1900s, Mauch Chunk was looking for a means of saving itself when the widow of 1912 Olympian Jim Thorpe proposed a stranger-than-fiction solution.
Guide History Jim Thorpe Formerly Mauch Chunk
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Author : Hans G. Egli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Guide History Jim Thorpe Formerly Mauch Chunk written by Hans G. Egli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Jim Thorpe (Pa.) categories.
Jim Thorpe In The 20th Century
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Author : John H. Drury
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Jim Thorpe In The 20th Century written by John H. Drury and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century examines the causes and effects of a community's decision to relinquish its Native American name Mauch Chunk (“Bear Mountain”) to become the town of Jim Thorpe. In the 19th century, Mauch Chunk rode a wave of prosperity, as coal shipping and tourism turned ordinary men into millionaires. In the 20th century, the mainstays of the town's economy began to tumble like dominoes: mule-drawn coal boats could not compete with the iron horse, ending Mauch Chunk's days as a canal town by 1922; the touristattracting Switchback Gravity Railroad, unable to afford parts, closed in 1932; the coal mines and working railroads collapsed, as industry, home heating, and trucking turned to petroleum. Downand-out by the mid-1900s, Mauch Chunk was looking for a means of saving itself when the widow of 1912 Olympian Jim Thorpe proposed a stranger-than-fiction solution.
Jim Thorpe The Legend Remembered
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Author : Updyke, Rosemary K.
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 1997
Jim Thorpe The Legend Remembered written by Updyke, Rosemary K. and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Track and field athletes categories.
A biography of the American Indian known as one of the best all-round athletes in history for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner and as an outstanding professional football and baseball player.
Jim Thorpe
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Author : Robert W. Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2024-02-18
Jim Thorpe written by Robert W. Wheeler and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Born in 1888 in what would soon be Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation. After attending the Sac and Fox agency school and Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kansas, he transferred to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. At Carlisle he led the football team to victories over some of the nation’s best college teams—Army, Navy, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska. In 1912 he participated in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, winning both the decathlon and pentathlon. It was then that King Gustav V of Sweden dubbed him “the world’s greatest athlete.” Between 1913 and 1919, Thorpe played professional baseball for the New York Giants, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Boston Braves. In 1915 he began playing professional football with the Canton (Ohio) Bulldogs. When the top teams were organized into the American Professional Football Association in 1920, Thorpe was named the first president of the organization, renamed the National Football League in 1922. Throughout his career he excelled in every sport he played, earning King Gustav’s accolade many times over.
Bibliography And Index Of Literature On Uranium And Thorium And Radioactive Occurrences In The United States
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Author : Margaret Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date : 1958
Bibliography And Index Of Literature On Uranium And Thorium And Radioactive Occurrences In The United States written by Margaret Cooper and has been published by Geological Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Radioactive substances categories.
Jim Thorpe
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Author : William A. Cook
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2011-07-29
Jim Thorpe written by William A. Cook and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-29 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Most biographies of Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) emphasize his Olympic glory and his remarkable abilities in track and football. Thorpe's 1912 gold medals in the decathalon and pentathalon and his talent on the gridiron rank him high among outstanding athletes of the twentieth century. That Thorpe also played brilliantly on the baseball diamond is an often overlooked facet of his career. This narrative of Thorpe's rise and fall in American sports pays particular attention to his time in the major and minor leagues, including his stormy relationship with New York Giants manager John McGraw and baseball's role in stripping Thorpe of his Olympic medals. By chronicling Thorpe's involvement in baseball, football and track concurrently, this profile offers a complete portrait of one of the most versatile athletes in sports history.