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Chief Bender’s Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star (Nonfiction)

by | Jul 1, 2008 | Western Books

Tom Swift, University of Nebraska Press, $24.95, Hardcover.
Even the protracted, chaotic writing of Tom Swift could not destroy this uplifting story about the life of Charles Bender. As a young Ojibwa Indian child, Bender fled his uncaring home on the reservation to attend the famed Carlisle Indian School where he was deprogrammed and taught the white man’s ways. Though he struggled with an affinity for alcohol and the bi


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