Relates the many adventures of the Chippewa brave Kogumwah as he leads a party of 12 young men, all sons of chiefs like himself, in search of the great Healer Wakana Tanka.

The legend of Eagle Claw

Names, Larry D.

Independence Press

TIDES OF WAR: IRONCLADS #1

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Eagan Hill Publishers

The winter of 1958-59 was the most pivotal period in the history of professional football.It started with the Baltimore Colts defeating the New York Giants for the National Football League Championship, 23-17, in the first ever overtime game in the history of football.Over the next three months, several events transpired that resulted in pro football being changed forever and for the good.None of those moments seemed to be all that important in the history of the game as they unfolded.The ramification of the first of these, the title game between Baltimore and New York, would not be realized for years to come. That contest was viewed by a national audience, sending ratings sky-rocketing and waking up officials in the NFL and in the board rooms of the three television networks at the time. They all saw the big dollar signs dancing before their eyes. The networks saw big bucks in advertising revenue, while football magnates saw a steady flow of income that put all of their franchises on solid financial footing forever.A couple of outsiders with foresight saw the same economic potential of pro football. Lamar Hunt and Bud Adams, two millionaires from Texas, wanted to join the NFL as owners of expansion teams to be located in Dallas and Houston. When they were snubbed by the existing league, they came together and decided to form their own league and call it the American Football League.The interaction by the big shots completely over shadowed one minor event that happened right under their noses.This book, the fifth in the series, The History of the Green Bay Packers, reveals how important that juncture in time was, not only in the history of a small-town football team, but in the overall history of professional football. Two men met in secret. One was Dominic Olejniczak, the president of the faltering Green Bay Packers. The other was Vincent Thomas Lombardi, the offensive coach of the New York Giants.Green Bay needed a King Arthur to lead their football knights. Olejniczak saw Lombardi as that man.No one at this time in the history of pro football knew how Vince Lombardi would perform as a head coach. Not even Lombardi. He only wanted a chance to prove himself in the big time. Olejniczak offered him that chance.Both men were taking huge risks. If Lombardi failed to resurrect the Packers after more than a decade of futility, Oleniczak would lose his job of directing the business end of the Packers. As for Lombardi, failure meant he might never get a second chance at being a head coach on any level. To both men, failure was not an option.Looking back over Lombardi's past, Fate seemed to be directing him to this job in little Green Bay. To those who knew him well, taking the job in Wisconsin was Lombardi's Destiny.

LOMBARDI'S DESTINY: PART ONE

History

Americas

Packers. Green Bay. The Green Bay Packers. No matter how it's said, one can't say Green Bay without thinking of the Packers or say Packers without thinking about Green Bay, the greatest little city in all of professional sports. But when and how did this legend in pro sports begin? That question is answered in the first detailed history of the Green Bay Packers.Larry Names tells the myths that color Packer history. Then he strips away the legends and finds the truth behind the tales. Did Curly Lambeau really start the Packers? What was George Whitney Calhoun's role in Packer history? How did George Halas help save the Packers from extinction? Were the early executives of the Packers anti-Semitic? How did Gerald Clifford create the most unique franchise in all of professional sports?Then there was the team, the players. How did the coach and general manager of a small town team in the frigid north entice so many stars to play professional football for him for less money than they could get in bigger cities? Jug Earpe, Charley Mathys, Cub Buck, Vern Lewellen, Red Dunn, Lavvie Dilweg, Johnny Blood, Cal Hubbard, Mike Michalske, and more. Hall-of-Famers all.The Green Bay Packers. The team and franchise too tough to die.

The Lambeau Years: Part One

The myth: the Depression forced the Packers into bankruptcy.The truth: a lawsuit by an injured fan forced the Packers management to seek protection from the corporation's creditors.THE HISTORY OF THE GREEN BAY PACKERS - THE LAMBEAU YEARS - Part Two - Revised Edition finally gets the story straight.In this controversial narrative of the Green Bay Packers, Larry D. Names has captured the essence of the team, the corporation that owns the Packers, and their riveting history. The numerous real life stories reveal how the Green Bay Packers managed to stay in the National Football League when the trend was to move to the big cities. Its detailed, documented style captivates the reader and involves him in the feelings of the times.Football grew through its players, its coaches, its owners; and the history of these men and their exploits has been clouded in more than a few memories. However; this history while intriguing does not compromise the facts with fancy. As in Part One, the reader will find the truth about some of the greatest names and the greatest team in football history.The author has finally done justice to the creation of the most unique sports franchise in American history. Through his exhaustive research, he has rediscovered football history.

THE LAMBEAU YEARS: PART TWO

The myth: Curly Lambeau quit the Packers because certain members of the executive committee were jealous of him.The truth: Lambeau quit the Packers because the executive committee put restraints on him that prevented him from abusing the authority that he had misused and misappropriated in the past.The Lambeau Years, Part 3 finally gets the story straight about those turbulent years in professional football immediately following World War II.In this controversial narrative about the Green Bay Packers, Larry Names has captured the essence of the team and its riveting history. The numerous real life stories contained herein reveal how The Green Bay Packers, Inc., fought overwhelming odds from forces outside - and inside - the corporation to stay alive and in Green Bay.The National Football League engaged in a struggle for its very existence in the years after World War II. The upstart All-America Conference made a real challenge to the NFL's supremacy in the professional football world, raiding the established league for players and causing an inflationary spiral in salaries that nearly bankrupted a majority of teams in both leagues. The two organizations appeared to be headed to total destruction before a merger could be accomplished in 1949. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were lost during this war, and several franchises went by the wayside. The Green Bay Packers came within an eyelash of being one of those teams that was shifted to another city or went belly-up during the conflict. Several powerful men in the NFL - including one very prominent man in Green Bay - wanted the Packers moved to another city, preferably San Francisco where they could compete with the AAC's 49ers or to Dallas or New Orleans in order to get a foothold in Texas or the South before the AAC moved in.For the first time the real story has been told of how the Packers managed to stay in Green Bay despite the overt acts of football moguls all around the country and the subversive tactics of the man who was credited with founding the team.

THE LAMBEAU YEARS: PART THREE

The two myths: Gene Ronzani and Lisle Blackbourn each resigned from being the head coach of the Green Bay Packers.The truth: both were fired, and the Packer organization to this day continues to deny that both were dismissed; one because of his ethnic background and the other because he tried to do the job he was hired to do.This fourth volume in the series on the history of the Green Bay Packers reveals the truth behind the headlines of the 1950s. After having fought for three decades for survival in a league consisting of big city teams, the Packers finally achieved financial solvency and even growth, only to have this incredible feat soiled by underhanded dealings by the corporation's executive committee.Not all was rotten in Bay City. The Packers did make some remarkable strides in the '50s, the most memorable being the construction of a new stadium, which the corporation partially financed with the taxpayers of the city of Green Bay. The Packers got their new stadium despite some wheeling-and-dealing by the corporation's own president that might have cost Green Bay its franchise in the NFL.Once again the Packers survived the turmoil within the NFL and in their own back yard. They appealed to the fans of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for more money through a stock sale, then they appealed to the voters and taxpayers of Green Bay for a new stadium. In both cases, they received overwhelming support.On the field, the Packers went through a trio of coaches from 1950 through 1958. Gene Ronzani had the unenviable task of rebuilding a team that had been decimated by the Pro Football War between the NFL and the AAC. Wisconsin native son Lisle Blackbourn was hired away from his job as head coach at Marquette University to replace Ronzani. Ray ''Scooter'' McLean, an assistant under both Ronzani and Blackbourn, was given the top post in 1958.

THE SHAMEFUL YEARS

"THE PLAYOFF BOWL IS FOR LOSERS." - V. LOMBARDI The second part of Vince Lombardi's tenure as head coach of the Green Bay Packers begins with the gambling investigation and scandal that struck the National Football League and resulted in the suspension of two of the league's star players. Detroit Lions defensive tackle Alex Karras put up a fight over his punishment, but the Golden Boy from Notre Dame and then star halfback for the Green Bay Packers Paul Hornung swallowed hard, admitted his wrongdoing, and humbly accepted his penalty. Vince Lombardi took Hornung's involvement hard, and so did his teammates and all Packerdom fans. They bemoaned the fact Hornung would be lost to the Packers when he was in his prime. Lombardi bit the bullet and redesigned his team to work without Hornung. The veterans on the team worked harder than ever as well. The result was one of the greatest regular seasons in their long history. At the same time, the cold war between the NFL and its rival American Football League became a little hotter. Attendance at AFL games continued to rise, and television money for both leagues set new records. Each league played its own brand of football and drew its own kind of fans. Everyone who followed the pro sport knew that change was in the air, and it would only be a matter of time until the two leagues merged. The only question remaining was: When? ; Lombardi's Destiny Part 2 takes professional football history through that exciting time of the mid-1960s.

LOMBARDI'S DESTINY: PART TWO (The History of the Green Bay Packers)

"This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story," Michel Hazanavicius, DirectorA dead body on the beach...Silent film actress, Maisy Malone and her three best friends, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett and Milo Cole have their Christmas day picnic at the beach spoiled by the discovery of a dead Japanese fisherman. They report the body to the Santa Monica police who notify the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department because the body was found outside the city’s jurisdiction. The sheriff decides not to waste any time or money investigating the murder. Maisy is offended by their racist attitude, so she and Mabel Normand decide to use their Christmas vacation from making movies to investigate the crime on their own. The clues lead them to the back alleys of Rattlesnake Island, the old name for San Pedro’s Terminal Island, where they discover a secret society of cutthroats and smugglers that has no ethnic limits. The two young women sleuths, with the assistance of L.A. Police Detective Sergeant Eddie Brown, snoop where they shouldn’t and nearly lose their lives as they hunt down the killer of Japanese fisherman Masi Tanaka in this cozy mystery.

MURDER ON RATTLESNAKE ISLAND: A MAISY MALONE MYSTERY STARRING MABEL NORMAND AND MACK SENNETT

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Laranmark Press

The perfect gift for football players, football coaches or anyone who loves football. With 80 blank lined sheets and 40 sketch pages, this book can keep your football game records, pre-season, practice season or regular season, jot down your football strategies or even write down what you feel about any football match. Sketch football plays and use page numbers to cross reference with game records. Features:?	Printed in black & white paperback, gloss cover?	Product size of 6" x 9", easy to carry around?	Personalize your information at the first page, 128 pages in total?	Perfect Gift for Green Bay Packer Fans and Football lovers alike!

The Fan Journal - The History of the Green Bay Packers: A Lined Notebook and Sketch Book

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