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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
In the Footsteps of Oregon's beloved U.S. Olympic Athlete, Activist, and Icon Born in the small town of Coos Bay, Oregon, Steve "Pre" Prefontaine's meteoric rise to cross-country and track superstardom included national recognition in high school followed by state, national, and world records. From the University of Oregon track to a fourth-place finish in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, he never stopped striving to make his mark on the world. Even today, his name conjures up images of athleticism, activism, and charisma. While his life tragically ended in a car accident at the youthful age of 24 - at which time he owned every American record from 2,000 to 10,000 meters and two to six miles - his legacy lives on. Join author and runner Paul C. Clerici as he brings you this legendary Oregon athlete.
"Eugene Cuvelier already belonged to the second generation of painter-photographers who sought their motifs in nature and whose photographs were sold as albums, "Etudes d'apres nature", and circulated widely as study material and pictorial models for artists. In 1859, in the presence of his artist friends Jean-Francois Millet, Theodore Rousseau and Camille Corot, Eugene Cuvelier married Louise Ganne, the daughter of the owner of the well-known Auberge in Barbizon, and there he settled. Thus he could study the landscape in its diverse forms of appearance, changing during the day and from one season to another. He was not only interested in the classic sights, however, but undertook a kind of ...
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