Counterpunch: the cultural battles over heavyweight prizefighting in the American West / Meg Frisbee.
Material type: TextPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780295806440
- 0295806443
- Cultural battles over heavyweight prizefighting in the American West
- Counterpunch
- Boxing -- West (U.S.) -- History
- Boxers (Sports) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- Boxing -- United States -- History
- GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- History
- SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- Boxers (Sports)
- Boxing
- United States
- West United States
- 796.830978 23
- GV1125
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 18, 2016).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.
Cover ; COUNTERPUNCH ; Title ; Copyright ; CONTENTS ; List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1 The "Slogging" Craze in San Francisco ; 2 The "Daring" Conservatives ; 3 Borderline ; 4 Nevada's Gamble ; 5 Paradise Lost ; 6 Prizefighting Is Not a Crime.
Conclusion Notes ; Selected Bibliography ; Index.
English.
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