Jim Thorpe - Worlds Greatest Athlete Paperback

Born in 1887 in Oklahoma Territory, Jim Thorpe was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation.  At sixteen, he left home to attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the off-reservation boarding school in Pennsylvania.  At Carlisle he led the football team to victories over some of the nation's best college teams - Army, Navy, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska.  In 1912 he participated in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, winning both the decathlon and pentathlon.  it was then that King Gustav V of Sweden dubbed him "the world's greatest athlete".  Throughout his ensuing career in professional baseball and pro football and as a motion picture actor and public speaker, he excelled in everything he pursued. Inspired and led his teammates and co-workers, and advocated for Native Americans.  In a new preface to this classic work, Robert W. Wheeler and Florence Ridlon update Thorpe's story, drawing on research they have conducted in spearheading the effort to restore the athlete's Olym