Jess Willard

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Jess Willard

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Author : Arly Allen
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-01-02

Jess Willard written by Arly Allen and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with Sports & Recreation categories.

Jess Willard, the "Pottawatomie Giant," won the heavyweight title in 1915 with his defeat of Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion. At 6 feet, 6 inches and 240 pounds, Willard was considered unbeatable in his day. He nonetheless lost to Jack Dempsey in 1919 in one of the most brutally one-sided contests in fistic history. Willard later made an initially successful comeback but was defeated by Luis Firpo in 1923 and retired from the ring. He died in 1968, largely forgotten by the boxing public. Featuring photographs from the Willard family archives, this first full-length biography provides a detailed portrait of one of America's boxing greats.

Dempsey And The Wild Bull

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Author : John Jarrett
language : en
Publisher: Pitch Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2015-01-07

Dempsey And The Wild Bull written by John Jarrett and has been published by Pitch Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-07 with Sports & Recreation categories.

They still call it the most sensational fight ever for the world heavyweight championship, between champion Jack Dempsey and his hammer-fisted Argentine challenger, Luis Angel Firpo. Back in the Roaring Twenties, 85,000 packed into New York's Polo Grounds to see all three minutes 57 seconds of it. Nobody asked for their money back. In the first round Firpo was floored seven times, but got up to deck the champion, then knocked him clean into the press section. Pushed back into the ring as the count reached nine, the champion survived the round, thinking he had been knocked out. In round two, Dempsey knocked Firpo out in 57 seconds. The four-minute Fight of the Century was over! "The Wild Bull of the Pampas" became Argentina's most famous citizen, after the infamous Perons. Dempsey, half a million dollars richer, rested and rusted for three years before losing his title to Gene Tunney.

Houdini

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Author : Harry Houdini
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 1928

Houdini written by Harry Houdini and has been published by Рипол Классик this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928 with History categories.

Jack Dillon

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Author : Mark Allen Baker
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2025-02-10

Jack Dillon written by Mark Allen Baker and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.

In the weight sensitive sport of boxing, Jack Dillon, "The Giant Killer," was considered an anomaly. Size was irrelevant; besides, it was only a factor if he accepted as such. He refused. Sturdy, compact and indestructible, yet capable of turning on a dime, Dillon not only defeated his opponents, he humiliated them. This dynamic defined his prolific and unparalleled career (1908-1925). His accepted record of 94-7-14, with 129 no decisions and one no contest (64 victories by way of knockout), put him in elite company with other members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. While he claimed the middleweight championship for over two years, the unrivaled Hoosier pugilist was often recognized as the world light heavyweight champion. Moving up a division, he disposed of heavyweight contenders like tissues during flu season. On June 29, 1916, Dillon defeated Frank Moran and was clearly the top contender for giant Jess Willard's heavyweight crown. Yet, Willard, who outweighed Dillon by 60 pounds, and was about a foot taller, refused. This first biography of the celebrated pugilist is based on contemporaneous newspaper accounts of the time and includes several appendices with career statistics and a selected boxing record.

Flint Hills Cowboys

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Author : Jim Hoy
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2006-04-27

Flint Hills Cowboys written by Jim Hoy and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-27 with History categories.

The Flint Hills are America's last tallgrass prairie, a green enclave set in the midst of the farmland of eastern Kansas. Known as the home of the Big Beef Steer, these rugged hills have produced exemplary cowboys-both the ranch and rodeo varieties-whose hard work has given them plenty of material for equally good stories. Jim Hoy grew up in the Flint Hills on a ranch at Cassoday that's been in his family for five generations and boasts roots "as deep as those of bluestem grass in black-soil bottomland." He now draws on this area's rich cowboy lore-as well as on his own experience working cattle, breaking horses, and rodeoing-to write a folk history of the Flint Hills spanning a century and a half. Hoy blends history, folklore, and memoir to conjure for readers the tallgrass prairies of his boyhood in a book that richly recalls the ranching life and the people who lived it. Here are cowboys and outlaws, rodeo stars and runaway horses, ordinary folks and the stuff of legends. Hoy introduces readers to the likes of Lou Hart, a top hand with the Crocker Brothers from 1906 to1910, whose poetic paean to ranch life circulated orally for fifty years before seeing print. And he tracks down the legend of Bud Gillette, considered by his neighbors the world's fastest man until he fell in with an unscrupulous promoter. He even unravels the mystery of a lone grave supposed to be that of the first cowboy in the Flint Hills. Hoy also explains why a good horse makes up for having to work with exasperating cattle-and why not all horses are created (or trained) equal. And he traces Flint Hills cattle culture from the days of the trail drive through the railroad years to today's trucking era, with most railroad stockyards torn down and only one section house left standing. Writes Hoy, "I feed on the stories of the Hills and the characters who tell them as the cattle feed on the grasses." His love of the land shines throughout a book so real that readers will swear they hear the click of horseshoes on flint rock with every turn of the page.

Catalogue Of Copyright Entries

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915

Catalogue Of Copyright Entries written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with American literature categories.

The American Hereford Record And Hereford Herd Book

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Author : American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922

The American Hereford Record And Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1922 with Cattle categories.

Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.

Duroc Jersey Swine Record Association

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919

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Duroc Jersey Swine Record

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Author : National Duroc Record Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919

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Broadcasting

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945

Broadcasting written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Broadcasting categories.