Dan Stuart's fistic carnival /
"Never have so many done so much to stop so few. The year was 1895, and Dallas gambler Dan Stuart had a modest idea: promote a boxing carnival featuring a match for the heavyweight championship of the world between Gentleman Jim Corbett and Fighting Bob Fitzsimmons. What could be simpler?"...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©1994.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. |
| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=18162 |
| Sumari: | "Never have so many done so much to stop so few. The year was 1895, and Dallas gambler Dan Stuart had a modest idea: promote a boxing carnival featuring a match for the heavyweight championship of the world between Gentleman Jim Corbett and Fighting Bob Fitzsimmons. What could be simpler?" "This richly detailed true epic of a fight and the hard-punching (and sometimes loony) political and religious turmoil surrounding it will entertain not only sports fans but all who appreciate a well-told tale that demonstrates once and for all that truth can be stranger than fiction - a lot stranger."--Jacket. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585174199 9780585174198 0890966141 9780890966143 089096615X 9780890966150 |