Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe Lakota was a story-teller and teacher

was a story-teller and teacher in the Ojibway tradition

Stephen Graham Jones's It Came from Del Rio

Tribal members representing each region and experts at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution were involved in its creation

Executive Director

Drew Hayden Taylor weaves a pulse-pounding and propulsive narrative with an intricate cast of characters

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe Lakota was a story-teller and teacherA biography of Americas greatest all around athlete that goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpes life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered. Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. Most famously, he won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm