{"product_id":"jim-thorpe-in-the-20th-joan-sewell-gilbert-9781531622947","title":"Jim Thorpe in the 20th Century","description":"Jim 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan Sewell Gilbert, John H. Drury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531622941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531622947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcadia Publishing Library Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d","brand":"Joan Sewell Gilbert","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995040743679,"sku":"9781531622947","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d1618774-f476-4ef2-b335-0ae4a62026bc.jpg?v=1683333598","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jim-thorpe-in-the-20th-joan-sewell-gilbert-9781531622947","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}