Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe women and community members alike

and community members alike

This book tells the history of the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe in their own words

Elk Tooth Woman

middle-class neighbor

among a host of grandmothers and aunties

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe women and community members alikeA biography of Americas greatest all around athlete that goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpes life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered. Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. Most famously, he won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm