C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America - Softcover

Williams, Geoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988349469 ISBN 13: 9780988349469

Publisher: Tantor Media, Incorporated, 2013

Synopsis

Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn't let down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a luckless boxer from Indiana; Seattle's Ed Gardner, one of four black runners who encountered bigotry; Charles Hart, a sixty-three-year-old Englishman hoping his best days weren't behind him; and Frank Johnson, a middle-aged husband, father, and steelworker from St. Louis who broke away from his humdrum life and dared to do something different. Newspaper and magazine journalist Geoff Williams details this historic event and the colorful cast of characters involved, based on firsthand accounts of those who were there and interviews from many living descendants. C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race is a classic American story so astonishing and surreal that you have to hear it to believe it.

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About the Author

Geoff Williams is a freelance journalist who regularly writes for U.S. News & World Report and has written for numerous publications, including CNNMoney.com, Life and Reuters. He is also the author of Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever. He lives with his two daughters in Loveland, Ohio.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tantor Media, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0988349469
• ISBN 13: 9780988349469
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336