The great American foot race : ballyhoo for the Bunion Derby! /
"[I]ntroduces young readers to a fascinating, little-known event--the Transcontinental Foot Race--which came to be known as the Bunion Derby. It is set in 1928, the height of the Roaring Twenties--a time of optimism, a time of excess, and the Age of Ballyhoo. . . More than 100 men of all races...
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| Language: | English |
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Honesdale, Pennsylvania :
Calkins Creek,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Boom!
- The age of the Ballyhoo
- A plan to motor west
- "The P.T. Barnum of professional sports"
- C.C. Pyle's first annual international transcontinental foot race
- A motley crew
- Los Angeles: and they're off!
- California: reckoning on the pass and in the desert
- Arizona and New Mexico: Rocky Mountain highs ... and lows
- Texas-sized troubles
- Oklahoma's favorite son
- Missouri and Illinois: dash across the midwest
- Indiana and Ohio: the bunion derby on life support
- Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey: the home stretch
- New York City: finish line
- Crash!
- The bunion derby map.