"I want him put where he wanted to be." Jim Thorpe is buried in the town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, and the way that happened is a story in itself. Thorpe, the son of a Sac and Fox Indian ...

In 1887, twin boys were born in a log house on the Sac and Fox reservation near the town of Bellemont ... the streets of East Coast cities as a noble curiosity. In 1912, Jim Thorpe walked the streets ...