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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Speno, Andrew, author.     Subjects     Transcontinental Foot Race (1st : 1928) -- Juvenile literature.     Running races -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.     Sports promoters -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Speno, Andrew, author.       by title:      The great American f...         MARC Display

The great American foot race : ballyhoo for the Bunion Derby! / Andrew Speno. by Speno, Andrew, author. Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, c2017. Subjects Transcontinental Foot Race (1st : 1928) -- Juvenile literature.   Running races -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.   Sports promoters -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9781629796024 (hardcover) 1629796026 (hardcover) Description:  176 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "[I]ntroduces young readers to a fascinating, little-known event--the Transcontinental Foot Race--which came to be known as the Bunion Derby. It is set in 1928, the height of the Roaring Twenties--a time of optimism, a time of excess, and the Age of Ballyhoo. . . More than 100 men of all races and nationalities started the race in California and faced all manner of obstacles--from extreme weather to poor food and living conditions, to prejudice to injury--to make the cross-country journey across the United States, ending in New York City."--Publisher's web site.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library YA -- Nonfiction 796.42 Sp Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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