Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here: And Other Stories from a Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania Boyhood

by Richard Benyo

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589661664
• ISBN13: 9781589661660
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Scranton Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"