the hell he didno, but he went to school in the area, and the town is part of his legacy. No, and he did not go to school there. He was never even in the town. The town bought his remains as an...
he was a native American who won medals at the Olympics He also played football, played basketball when it was just starting as a sport, set records in track and field and was a major league baseball...
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. After Thorpe's death in 1953, his body was placed in a tomb in Tulsa, Oklahoma to await burial. The town leaders of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania approached Thorpe's widow with...