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GREAT AMERICAN FOOT RACE

Thursday, July 2nd

8:00am on
Runtime: 00:56:40

In 1928, Andy Payne, a 20-year-old Cherokee, won the Great American Footrace -- the longest footrace in history, stretching 3,422 miles along Route 66, from Los Angeles to New York. Andy's story is remarkable because it reveals an ordinary Native American who triumphed not because of mystical power, but because he believed in himself.