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    Warrior in the Ring: The life of Marvin Camel, Native American world champion boxer
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    Warrior in the Ring: The life of Marvin Camel, Native American world champion boxer
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    Warrior in the Ring: The life of Marvin Camel, Native American world champion boxer

    By Brian D'Ambrosio

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    In the Golden Age of boxing, Marvin Camel—a mixed blood from the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana—defied all obstacles of race, poverty, and geographical isolation to become the first Native American to win a world boxing title.

    Complex and wildly charismatic, Camel combined tremendous physical talent with staggering self-discipline—forged by the sting of his father’s belt—to claw his way to the top, twice winning world titles in the newly minted cruiserweight division and fighting on the same cards as boxing icons Roberto Duran, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Bob Foster.

    Camel’s journey was an amazing example of gritty determination: punishing runs on Montana’s back roads, relentless training in make-shift gyms, sleeping in beat-up cars before fights in glittering Las Vegas, and even training and fighting for a world championship in a foreign country, alone.

    Always, Camel willingly represented his state and his people, proudly wearing his eagle-feather headdress into the ring. Yet with success came sacrifice and pain, both physical and personal, but in life as in the boxing ring, Camel emerged bloody but unbowed.

    With irresistible detail gleaned from years of frank interviews with Camel, his family and friends, his former opponents, and seasoned boxing insiders, Brian D’Ambrosio’s gripping biography captures the drama, danger, beauty, and ugliness of boxing, of Indian life on reservations, and especially, of the life of a stereotype-shattering man who inspired his people and boxing fans everywhere with his courage, achievements, and great warrior heart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRiverbend Publishing
    Release dateJul 14, 2016
    ISBN9781606390832
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    Warrior in the Ring: The life of Marvin Camel, Native American world champion boxer
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    Brian D'Ambrosio

    Brian D'Ambrosio is a writer and marketing and media consultant in Missoula, Montana. D'Ambrosio's articles have been published in local, regional, and national publications, including Western Horseman, ESPN The Magazine, Wisconsin Trails, Bark Magazine, Montana Magazine, and Backpacker Magazine.Brian D'Ambrosio lives and works in, as well as writes from, Missoula, Montana. In July 2013 alone, D'Ambrosio interviewed Iowa folk music legend Greg Brown, blues artist Mia Borders, former entertainment wrestler Ivan Koloff, boxing legend Earnie Shavers, boxer Doug DeWitt, Washington Capitals assistant coach Tim Hunter, and famed Montana leather artist Howard Knight.D'Ambrosio's past stints have included work as an instructor, media consultant, newspaper editor, and marketing and communications coordinator.His favorite journalistic topics or subjects: history, theatre, architecture, biography, boxing, NHL tough guys, photography, forgotten inventors, and obscure American poets and authors. He has worked in media relations on behalf of non-profits, theatre groups, digital publications, and start-up businesses.Brian D'Ambrosio has written more than 10 books and is in the process of completing a biography of boxer "Indian" Marvin Camel and 'Warriors on Ice,' recalling the lives, times and careers of the greatest NHL tough guys. He contributes regularly to multiple publications on a vast variety of subjects.

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