Leaning on a Legacy singing As one of the world's

As one of the world's great celebrities of the 1920s and 1930s

the first twenty (20) winners of the Jim Thorpe Award

The book is divided into four sections - First

our heroes

Leaning on a Legacy singing As one of the world'sThe Great Depression took its toll on the pocketbooks and emotions of Oklahomans who lost their jobs as banks failed, businesses closed, and farm markets collapsed in the 1930s. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress created the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the largest of Roosevelt s New Deal programs designed to bring America back to good economic health. After 1939 the agency was known as the Work Projects Administration. The