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[7] [8] His mother, Charlotte Vieux, was the daughter of Citizen Potawatomi Nation members Elizabeth and Jacob Vieux, [9] and was a descendant of Chief Louis Vieux. [10] Thorpe was raised as a Sac and Fox, [11] and his native name, Wa-Tho-Huk, is translated as "path lit by great flash of lightning" or, more simply, "Bright Path". [2]
Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe is a 2010 non-fiction book by Kate Buford, published by Alfred A. Knopf. It is now published by University of Nebraska Press . The subject is Jim Thorpe .
The Old Mauch Chunk Historic District is a national historic district located in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 28 contributing buildings in the central business district of Jim Thorpe. It includes residential and commercial buildings in a number of popular architectural styles, including Italianate.
Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict ...
Central Railroad of New Jersey Station in Jim Thorpe, now a visitors center. Jim Thorpe was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk (/ ˌ m ɔː k ˈ tʃ ʌ ŋ k /), a name derived from the term Mawsch Unk, meaning Bear Place in Unami, the language of the native Lenape, possibly a reference to Bear Mountain, an extension of Mauch Chunk Ridge that resembled a sleeping bear, or perhaps the original ...
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Grace was the youngest of four; her oldest sister Gail Margaret was born in 1917, her brother James in 1918, and her sister Charlotte Marie in 1919. [1] Her brother James died from polio before reaching adolescence. [5] By the time of Grace's birth, her father, Jim Thorpe, was already an Olympic medalist.
Jim Thorpe – All-American (UK title: Man of Bronze) is a 1951 American biographical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Burt Lancaster as Jim Thorpe, the great Native American athlete who won medals at the 1912 Olympics and distinguished himself in various sports, both in college and on professional teams.