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Paperback Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) Book

ISBN: 0738509639

ISBN13: 9780738509631

Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)

(Part of the Images of America: Pennsylvania Series)

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Through an extraordinary collection of photographs, Jim Thorpe tells the story of not only the athlete but its famed coal-mining industry.


What was originally named Mauch Chunk, Jim Thorpe was established on the Lehigh River as a shipping depot for anthracite coal in 1818 by Josiah White, a Philadelphia Quaker and brilliant engineer, and his trusted business partner, Erskine Hazard. By 1829, White and Hazard had founded the Lehigh...

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