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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
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
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
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
Historical Dictionary of Boxing
Language: en
Pages: 589
Authors: John Grasso
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-14 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

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Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so. But, in som