Retribution and Resurrection: The Life of Marshall "Major" Taylor, 1904-1948

Some are forgotten by the world. Legends are remembered by those who care.

Book Three of The Fastest Human on Earth, and the hardest of the three: what happens after the fastest man in the world stops being fast.

1904 to 1948. The last seasons. The retirement nobody chooses. The investments that failed, the business that failed, the marriage that strained, the savings that went into a book he published himself and sold door to door because no publisher would.

He died in 1932 in a charity ward in Chicago, buried in an unmarked grave in the welfare section of Mount Glenwood cemetery. He was fifty-three.

Sixteen years later a dozen old riders drove out to that cemetery with a bronze marker paid for by a bicycle company. Some of them had spent their careers trying to break him. That is the resurrection, and it is not a clean one.

There is a velodrome with his name on it now. A daughter who kept the record when nobody else would. A country that took forty years to say what it owed him.

Narrative history, anchored to the documented record. Concludes the trilogy begun in The Spark and The Reign.

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