EL RENO CARNEGIE LIBRARY X2, CHARLES KASTNER, PRIVATE COLLECTION X1
ON YOUR MARKS… Race competitors line up for the start of the Oklahoma stage (main). The official programme (right) claimed there were 275 participants, but only 199 made it through the intensive training
One mid-afternoon in March 1928, a motley mob of men left a racetrack in Los Angeles and began an extraordinary 3,422-mile footrace. The epic event, quickly dubbed the Bunion Derby, sent them across scorching deserts, over freezing mountain ranges and through merciless amounts of mud, endless dust-blown prairies and car-choked city streets from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.