Episode 18: Off Track
Charles J. P. Lucas, The Olympic Games, 1904 (St. Louis, Mo: Woodward & Tieran Printing Co., 1905).
Daniel M. Rosen, Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports From the Nineteenth Century to Today (Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2008).
George R. Matthews, America’s First Olympics: The St. Louis Games of 1904 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005).
James Gilbert, Whose Fair? Experience, Memory, and the History of the Great St. Louis Exposition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
Jim Thorpe — Indiana Hoosier, Part 1, The Weekly View, http://weeklyview.net/2020/02/27/jim-thorpe-indiana-hoosier-part-1/.
“Marathon Captivated Crowd at 1904 Olympics.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, (December 14, 2003).
“Olympic-Sized Racism,” Slate, https://slate.com/culture/2008/08/remembering-the-anthropology-days-at-the-1904-olympics.html.
“One Man’s Poison In a Brazen and Forgotten Incident of Doping.” Boston Globe, February 22, 2009.
Pamela Cooper, The American Marathon (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998).
Piott, Steven L. Holy Joe: Joseph W. Folk and the Missouri Idea. (University of Missouri Press, 1997).
Roller-coaster life of Indian icon, sports' first star, CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/07/09/jim.thorpe/
Scientists staged a racist Olympics in 1904 to “prove” white superiority, Timeline, https://timeline.com/anthropology-days-scientists-racist-olympics-prove-white-superiority-7a45289071cf.
Secrets, scandals, little-known stories of 1904 World's Fair, Stars & Stripes, https://www.stripes.com/news/us/secrets-scandals-little-known-stories-of-1904-world-s-fair-1.603722.
“St. Louis Games Were Extremely Primitive By Today’s Standards.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 2004.
The First Modern Olympics, History, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-modern-olympic-games.
The Largest Human Zoo in World History, Laphams Quarterly, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/largest-human-zoo-world-history
The Little-Known History of How the Modern Olympics Got Their Start, Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-history-of-how-the-modern-olympics-got-their-start-138117709/.
“The Olympics of 1904: Comedic, Disgraceful, and ‘Best Forgotten.” Wall Street Journal, (August 11, 2004).
“The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever,” Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/.
Thorpe preceded Deion, Bo, ESPN, http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016499.html.
Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (Basic Books, 2020).
Why Are Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?, Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-are-jim-thorpes-olympic-records-still-not-recognized-130986336/.