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The Great American Foot Race: Ballyhoo for the Bunion Derby!

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The Great American Foot Race: Ballyhoo for the Bunion Derby! - Speno, Andrew
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"Introduces young readers to a ... 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" ...

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The Great American Foot Race: Ballyhoo for the Bunion Derby! 2017, Calkins Creek Books

ISBN-13: 9781629796024

Hardcover