Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International
Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs,
including twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne,
who wanted to win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the
mortgage on his family's farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in
over his head but couldn't let down his North Carolina hometown;
Mike Kelly, a luckless boxer from Indiana; Seattle's Ed Gardner,
one of four black runners who encountered bigotry; Charles Hart, a
sixty-three-year-old Englishman hoping his best days weren't behind
him; and Frank Johnson, a middle-aged husband, father, and
steelworker from St. Louis who broke away from his humdrum life and
dared to do something different. Newspaper and magazine journalist
Geoff Williams details this historic event and the colorful cast of
characters involved, based on firsthand accounts of those who were
there and interviews from many living descendants. C. C. Pyle's
Amazing Foot Race is a classic American story so astonishing and
surreal that you have to hear it to believe it.
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