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Author Frisbee, Meg

Title Counterpunch : the cultural battles over heavyweight prizefighting in the American West / Meg Frisbee
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 245 pages)
Contents Cover ; COUNTERPUNCH ; Title ; Copyright ; CONTENTS ; List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1 The "Slogging" Craze in San Francisco ; 2 The "Daring" Conservatives ; 3 Borderline ; 4 Nevada's Gamble ; 5 Paradise Lost ; 6 Prizefighting Is Not a Crime
Conclusion Notes ; Selected Bibliography ; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index
Notes English
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Subject Boxing -- West (U.S.) -- History
Boxers (Sports) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Boxing -- United States -- History
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Boxers (Sports)
Boxing
United States
West United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021692771
ISBN 9780295806440
0295806443