Download or read book Roughhouse Red Iron Man of the Mountains written by Margo Palmer and published by Margo Palmer. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would know better spots to fish than a game warden? Cliff Palmer grew up working a farm in Georgia with his father, joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in Washington state as a teenager, then was drafted and fought in Italy during World War II. After the war, he served as a wildlife ranger with Georgia Game and Fish Commission for thirty years. These are his stories. Margo Palmer’s interest in writing dates back to her college years at Harvard where she studied writing with Memphis poet Richard Tillinghast. She taught for thirty years in Gwinnett County (Georgia) Public Schools, turning to writing after retirement. She interviewed Cliff Palmer during his lifetime to document the savor of rural Georgia’s language and culture in his biography. She and her husband live on a 62-acre farm in Barrow County, Georgia, and are parents to three and grandparents of ten children.
Download or read book Iron Mac written by Andrew M. Homan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when cycling in the United States rivaled baseball as the nation’s most popular professional sport, along came Reggie McNamara, a farmer’s son from Australia. Within a month of his arrival in the United States in 1913, he had earned the moniker “Iron Man” for his high tolerance of pain and his remarkable ability to recover from seemingly catastrophic injury. The nickname proved justified. Not only was he tough, he was also one of the best and highest-paid athletes in the world. During his thirty-year career, McNamara won seventeen punishing six-day races along with an inestimable number of shorter distance races, including high-profile events on three different continents, peaking in 1926–27 at the age of thirty-nine. The fans, media, and his fellow professionals all idolized him as an example of the true grit needed to succeed in this grueling and dangerous sport. Late in his career, however, hard drinking and injuries took their toll, and McNamara became estranged from his wife and children. He fought back just as he always had on the race course, conquering his addiction to alcohol and becoming one of the earliest success stories of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this humorous and exciting biography of the original Iron Man, Andrew M. Homan pulls McNamara back into the spotlight, depicting a flawed but beloved man whose success in those unrelenting six-day races came at a price.
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Download or read book Television Western Players 1960 1975 written by Everett Aaker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical encyclopedia covers every actor and actress who had a regular role in a Western series on American television from 1960 through 1975, with analyses of key players. The entries provide birth and death dates, family information, and accounts of each player's career, with a cross-referenced videography. An appendix gives details about all Western series, network or syndicated, 1960-1975. The book is fully indexed.
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