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Audie Honor Finalist, Record, 2014 On the list of athletes of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Ft . Race were an assortment of underdogs, including 20-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to win over the lady of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was simply in over his mind but couldn't disappointed his NEW YORK hometown; Mike Kelly, a luckless boxer from Indiana; Seattle's Ed Gardner, one of four dark-colored runners who encountered bigotry; Charles Hart, a 63-year-old Englishman expecting his best days weren't behind him; and Frank Johnson, a middle-aged hubby, dad, and steelworker from St. Louis who broke from his humdrum life and dared to do something different. Newspaper and magazine journalist Geoff Williams details this ancient event and the multi-colored cast of personas involved, based on firsthand accounts of these who were there and interviews from many living descendants. C. C. Pyle's Amazing Ft . Race is a classic American story so astonishing and surreal that you have to hear it to trust it.
