Shooting for the Record: Adolph Toepperwein, Tom Frye, and Sharpshooting's Forgotten Controversy
(Part of the Sport in the American West Series)
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Every few years, a book comes along that makes an important contribution to the history of American sport, even though--or, maybe, because--its storyline delves into the obscure. The event that launches the narrative in Shooting for the Record is the 1959 news report that strapping and handsome Tom Frye had broken sharpshooting's endurance world record after he shot at 100,000 hand-thrown wooden cubes and missed only six. But even as the Guinness...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:089672977X
ISBN13:9780896729773
Release Date:June 2016
Publisher:Texas Tech University Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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