Author: Larry LaTourette
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476691185
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In the 1870s, Gus Hornsby spread the game of American football around the world like an evangelist and helped establish it in the U.S. heartland. Hornsby seemed destined for greatness as a journalist, inventor, explorer and entrepreneur. His arrogance, greed and an intractable gambling addiction, however, drove him to criminality and cast him into obscurity. But this public ruin led to his greatest accomplishment in prison: personal redemption. Surprisingly, Hornsby's meteoric rise and fall intersected with towering influencers of the time, including the women and men who would pioneer the "first-wave" feminist movement in the United States. This book explores their unexpected connections and interweaves their stories--along with details of the first American football game in the Midwest--to reveal elements of a pivotal moment in American history, both in feminism and sports. More than a biography of a person, it is a story about America--brash, imaginative and seemingly limitless in resources and creativity, but overly self-assured and wildly reckless.
Gus Hornsby's Gamble
The Bankers Encyclopedia
Polk's Bankers Encyclopedia
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Subject Index of Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
The Annual American Catalogue
A Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years 1880-[95]
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description