LONGBOAT: The Story of Cogwagee

Tom Longboat-Cogwagee, "Everything"-was born on the Six Nations of the Grand River and learned to run where the pines stand like pillars. They took his hair, his language, and his laughter at the residential school, but they could not take his stride. From farm roads to fairgrounds, from the roar of Boston in 1907 to the shell-bitten roads of the Great War, his life became a sermon in motion: endurance with a soul.

Told in luminous, cinematic prose, LONGBOAT is a novelized life of one of the world's greatest distance runners-an Onondaga son whose feet found freedom and whose faith learned to breathe again. The book honors the community that named him, the elders who formed him, and the holy hush that met him on the road. It is fierce with history and tender with Presence.

For readers of Running with Sherman, Born to Run, and literary biographies that carry both grit and grace, LONGBOAT is not just a story you read-it's a rhythm you keep. The medals? Dust. The finish? A Face. Run.