[PDF] Jim Thorpe Formerly Mauch Chunk eBook

Author : Richard Benyo
Publisher : University of Scranton Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Boys
ISBN : 9781589661660

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Jim Thorp never slept in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, the town formerly known as Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk. But through a combination of ambition, necessity, and sheer luck, these small towns became the final resting place of the great American Indian Olympic champion and in 1954 they legally changed their name to permanently commemorate his burial. Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here, a treasury of tales from a 1950s boyhood in a town surrounded by the mountains of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal region, is a passport to a lost land of childhood adventure, featuring an ancient river, old mine shafts, canal locks, hobos camps, the remains of millionaires' mansions--and the hilarious antics of Richard Benyo and his buddies in the South Street Gang. This memoir brings the 1950s alive--just as The Little Rascals did for the Depression--with its renderings of afternoons spent with baseball cards, cardboard forts, BB guns, playground bullying. and that first illicit sip of beer. Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here is a memorable, nostalgic account of all the trials, tribulations, and the rites of passage of growing up in post-war America.

Author : John H. Drury
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738538600

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Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century examines the causes and effects of a community's decision to relinquish its Native American name Mauch Chunk (“Bear Mountain”) to become the town of Jim Thorpe. In the 19th century, Mauch Chunk rode a wave of prosperity, as coal shipping and tourism turned ordinary men into millionaires. In the 20th century, the mainstays of the town's economy began to tumble like dominoes: mule-drawn coal boats could not compete with the iron horse, ending Mauch Chunk's days as a canal town by 1922; the touristattracting Switchback Gravity Railroad, unable to afford parts, closed in 1932; the coal mines and working railroads collapsed, as industry, home heating, and trucking turned to petroleum. Downand-out by the mid-1900s, Mauch Chunk was looking for a means of saving itself when the widow of 1912 Olympian Jim Thorpe proposed a stranger-than-fiction solution.

Author : Harry Klemic
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Geology
ISBN :

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Prepared on behalf of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

Author : Mindy Gulden Crawford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 149304186X

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Historic Pennsylvania: A Tour of the State’s Top 100 National Historic Landmarks is a carefully curated travel guide, written by a local historian, featuring the most intriguing and significant of the state's nationally recognized historic landmarks. This guide provides interesting anecdotes and color photography of famous homes and churches, man-made wonders set amid the splendor of nature, and the crumbling remains of the region's industrial, coal mining past. Tour the Keystone State and travel back in time with Historic Pennsylvania.

Author : David A. Phoenix
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Geology
ISBN :

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Prepared on behalf of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published with permission of the Commission.