Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
498Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
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Overview
World champions. And yet their triumphs were forgotten—until Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith chanced upon a team photo and embarked on a ten-year journey of discovery. Their in-depth research and extensive collaboration with the teammates’ descendents and tribal kin have resulted in a narrative as entertaining as it is authentic.
Full-Court Quest offers a rare glimpse into American Indian life and into the world of women’s basketball before “girls’ rules” temporarily shackled the sport. For anyone captivated by Sea Biscuit, A League of Their Own, and other accounts of unlikely champions, this book rates as nothing but net.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780806139739 |
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Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press |
Publication date: | 11/10/2008 |
Pages: | 498 |
Product dimensions: | 6.50(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.70(d) |
Age Range: | 15 - 18 Years |
About the Author
Ursula Smith pursued graduate work at San Francisco State University under a Ford Foundation Fellowship and taught in the San Francisco school system. She began collaborative work in women's history and biography with coauthor Linda Peavy in Bozeman, Montana. Since then Peavy and Smith have coauthored ten books, including Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement, Pioneer Women, Frontier Children, and Frontier House. Currently residing in Vermont, Smith has given presentations and workshops with Peavy across the nation, including at the Library of Congress and the White House. With Peavy she has been awarded a Redd Center for Western Studies Independent Research Award, a Smithsonian Short-Term Visitors grant, two nonfiction writing residencies at Centrum, Port Townsend, Washington, and two Paladin Awards for excellence in writing western history.
Table of Contents
Preface xi
St. Louis World's Fair, Saturday, October 8, 1904 3
A Confluence of Cultures 5
End of an Era 12
Birth of a Game 15
Phoenix Rising, 1892 18
Routine and Ritual, 1892 26
Recruitment, Runaways, and Reinforcements, 1893 36
Foreshadowings, 1893 46
Future Prospects, 1893-1894 49
"Basket Ball for Women," 1894 59
Elusive Dreams, 1895-1896 62
A Wise Investment, 1896-1897 72
Widening the Circle, 1897 83
Transitions, 1897-1899 91
More to Be Learned, 1899-1900 100
Gateway to a World's Fair, 1900 107
School Spirit, 1900-1901 122
New Connections and Old, 1901 129
Staking Out the Fair, St. Louis, 1901 137
The Team Takes Shape, 1901-1902 140
"Basket Ball Is the Thing," Fall 1902 147
Testing Their Mettle, Thanksgiving 1902 157
Samuel McCowan's Indian Exhibit, December 1902 167
"Like Lambent Flames… across the Polished Floor" Winter 1903 170
Like a Wall of Fire through a Cane Break," Winter 1903 182
McCowan in St. Louis, April 1903 193
Montana's Champions, Spring 1903 198
Taking the Gospel Back Home, June 1903 204
"In All Ways Most Deserving," Summer 1903 212
Looking to the Future, Fall 1903 219
"A Great Thing for Girls' Sport," Fall 1903 230
Getting Ready, Winter 1903-1904 232
Showcase Season, February-April 1904 240
"Open, Ye Gates! Swing Wide, Ye Portals!" April 30, 1904 250
"Everybody Is Going," May 1904 253
"Something to Remember," June 1, 1904 269
The Adventure Begins, June 1904 274
"A Veritable Fairyland," St. Louis 281
"Eleven Aboriginal Maidens" 295
The Observers and the Observed 309
A Silver Trophy 320
Champions of the World's Fair 324
"Forget Me Not," 1904-1910 336
Epilogue 343
The Years Thereafter 347
Acknowledgments 363
Notes 373
Bibliography 443
Index 461
Illustration Credits 480