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Native American Son The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim ~ Kate Buford has written what is likely to definitive biography of Jim Thorpe Jim Thorpe is considered by many to be the greatest athlete of the 20th century Thorpe was a part of the Sac and Fox tribe and grew up on a reservation in Oklahoma with a tough alcoholic father

Native American Son The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim ~ BURT LANCASTER AN AMERICAN LIFE Knopf 2000 was my first book followed by NATIVE AMERICAN SON THE LIFE AND SPORTING LEGEND OF JIM THORPE Knopf 2010 I live in Virginia and New York Writing narrative nonfiction is I was born and grew up in California and later went to school at Trinity College Dublin and Columbia

Native American Son The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim ~ Thorpe was a part of the Sac and Fox tribe and grew up on a reservation in Oklahoma with a tough alcoholic father After running away from a number of boarding schools in his youth his father finally sent him to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle Pennsylvania

Native American Son The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim ~ At its best this book is a compelling biography of Americas greatest and most versatile male athlete Kate Buford presents a vivid and heartfelt portrait of J

Native American Son The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim ~ The Paperback of the Native American Son The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe by Kate Buford at Barnes Noble FREE Shipping on 35 or more BN Outlet Membership Educators Gift Cards Stores Events Help

Native American Son The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim ~ This retrospective is not the first to tackle the complex life of Jim Thorpe but it’s the most comprehensive Captures Thorpe’s breathtaking highs and heartrending lows” Kirkus “From the opening paragraphs I realized that Native American Son was going to be gripping and illuminating Kate Buford not only tells us a great deal we

Native American son the life and sporting legend of Jim ~ Get this from a library Native American son the life and sporting legend of Jim Thorpe Kate Buford The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports Jim Thorpe arguably the greatest allaround athlete the United States has ever seen

Native American Son University of Nebraska Press ~ Native American Son The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe Kate Buford 528 pages 51 illustrations Paperback March 2012 9780803240896 2695 Add to Cart Buford recounts the difficulties Thorpe faced as a Native American We also see the infamous loss of his Olympic medals stripped from him because he had previously played

Book Review Native American Son The Life and Sporting ~ In Kate Buford’s biography “Native American Son The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe” the most objective measurement given for Thorpe’s allaround athletic ability is in a section on his performance at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm