Full-Court Quest - 9780806144696

Full-Court QuestThe Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World\nAuthor(s): Linda Peavy, Ursula Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806144696, 978-0806144696\nSynopsis\nMost fans of women's basketball would be startled to learn that girls' teams were making their mark more than a century ago - and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana. Playing like \""\""lambent flames\""\"" across the polished floors of dance halls, armories, and gymnasiums, the girls from Fort Shaw stormed the state to emerge as Montana's first basketball champions. Taking their game to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, these young women introduced an international audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a trophy declaring them champions.\n\nWorld champions. And yet their triumphs were forgotten - until Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith.