{"product_id":"jim-thorpe-in-the-20th-century-hardcover","title":"Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoan Sewell Gilbert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn H. Drury\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Thorpe in the 20th Century examines the causes and effects of a community's decision to relinquish its Native American name Mauch Chunk (\"Bear Mountain\") to become the town of Jim Thorpe. In the 19th century, Mauch Chunk rode a wave of prosperity, as coal shipping and tourism turned ordinary men into millionaires. In the 20th century, the mainstays of the town's economy began to tumble like dominoes: mule-drawn coal boats could not compete with the iron horse, ending Mauch Chunk's days as a canal town by 1922; the touristattracting Switchback Gravity Railroad, \u003cbr\u003eunable to afford parts, closed in 1932; the coal mines and working railroads collapsed, as industry, home heating, and trucking turned to petroleum. Downand-out by the mid-1900s, Mauch Chunk was looking for a means of saving itself when the widow of 1912 Olympian Jim Thorpe proposed a stranger-than-fiction solution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 130\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429155618994,"sku":"9781531622947","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/65e38f943c0dd36c44196a33ac50ad43.webp?v=1778557367","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/jim-thorpe-in-the-20th-century-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}