Alma Richards / / Larry R. Gerlach
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| Autore: |
Gerlach Larry R
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| Titolo: |
Alma Richards / / Larry R. Gerlach
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| Pubblicazione: | Salt Lake City, Utah : , : The University of Utah Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 796.42092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Latter Day Saints - Utah |
| Track and field athletes - Utah | |
| Track and field athletes - United States | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: SAGEBRUSH TO STARDOM -- 1. FORMATIVE YEARS -- 2. FROM PAROWAN TO PROVO -- 3. MAKING THE AMERICAN TEAM -- 4. GOING FOR GOLD -- PART II: COMING OF AGE -- 5. THE HERO RETURNS -- 6. THE BIG CORNELLIAN -- 7. MILITARY INTERLUDE -- PART III: CHASING DREAMS -- 8. TO THE TRACK -- 9. ON THE HOME FRONT -- PART IV: TAKING STOCK -- 10. ALMA REMEMBERING -- 11. REMEMBERING ALMA -- 12. GOD, GOLD, AND GLORY? -- 13. CROSSING THE BAR -- 14. ALMA RICHARDS REDIVIVUS -- APPENDIX A: MARTHA WARD,"TRIBUTE TO ALMA RICHARDS" -- APPENDIX B: ALMA RICHARDS TRACK AND FIELD RECORDS* -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Alma Richards, as an unsung high school student, surprisingly set an Olympic record for the high jump in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.He was the only native Utahn and member of the LDS church to win an Olympic gold medal in the twentieth century. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Alma Richards |
| ISBN: | 1-60781-492-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910970453003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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