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Boxing in New Mexico, 1868-1940
Language: en
Pages: 449
Authors: Chris Cozzone
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-15 - Publisher: McFarland

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On June 28, 1868, a group of men gathered alongside a road 35 miles north of Albuquerque to witness a 165-round, 6-hour bare-knuckle brawl between well-known Co
Crazy Fourth
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Toby Smith
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-15 - Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

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In 1912 boxing was as popular a spectator sport in the United States as baseball, if not more so. It was also rife with corruption and surrounded by gambling, d
Boxing
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Gerald R. Gems
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-13 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Sports fans have long been fascinated with boxing and the brutal demonstration of physical and psychological conflict. Accounts of the sport appear as far back
Hell Paso
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Samuel K. Dolan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-24 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Spanning a thirty-year period, from the late 1800s until the 1920s, Hell Paso is the true story of the desperate men and notorious women that made El Paso, Texa
Counterpunch
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Meg Frisbee
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-02 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter. However, not everyone in the region was a fan. Counterpunch examines how the
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