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The 1929 Bunion Derby : Johnny Salo and the Great Footrace across America /
"On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile footrace across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking point. Nicknamed the "Bunion Derby" by the press, this was the second and last of two trans-America footraces held in the late 1920s. The men averaged forty-...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Syracuse, New York :
Syracuse University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Race day: New York City to Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 31, 1929
- Down the Eastern Seaboard: Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Baltimore, Maryland, April 1-April 5, 1929
- 3. Six days of hell-Crossing the Appalachian plateau: Baltimore, Maryland, to Wheeling, West Virginia, April 6-April 11, 1929
- 4. Fast times in the Old Northwest: Wheeling, West Virginia, to Collinsville, Illinois, April 12-April 23, 1929
- 5. On familiar ground: Collinsville, Illinois, to Chelsea, Oklahoma, April 24-May 3, 1929
- 6. Heading to the promised land: Chelsea, Oklahoma, to Dallas, Texas, May 4-May 10, 1929
- 7. Under Western skies: Dallas to Pecos, Texas, May 11-May 22, 1929
- 8. West of the Pecos: Pecos to El Paso, Texas, May 23-May 27, 1929
- 9. Across a rough and unforgiving land: El Paso, Texas, to Yuma, Arizona, May 28-June 10, 1929
- 10. "Overcoming the killing distances"
- The last five days to Los Angeles: Yuma, Arizona, to Los Angeles, June 11-June 15, 1929
- 11. The end of the rainbow: Los Angeles, June 16, 1929
- 12. Searching for the pot of gold.
- Appendixes: A. List of starters
- B. Daily and cumulative mileage
- C. Pace by stage finishers
- D. Cumulative pace by stage finishers
- E. Marathon pace by mile.