On Monday, in that critical stretch of the Boston Marathon known as Heartbreak Hill, I’m sure he will be there. At least his spirit will be. The spirit of one of the race’s greats. What a name he had.

Ellison "Tarzan" Brown, a Native American from Rhode Island, won the Boston Marathon in 1936 and 1939. The name "Heartbreak Hill" comes from the 1936 Boston Marathon when Brown overtook Johnny Kelley ...

The Narragansett Indian who lived in Charlestown, R.I., had to borrow $1 to enter the 1939 Boston Marathon. He won and set a new American record. WATCH: The marathon legend is in the Indigenous ...

The scene was poignant: Indigenous people who, as children, had been plucked from their communities and shipped to American Indian boarding schools greeted each other and talked about how much they’d ...

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. - A Rhode Island family is on the hunt for their grandfather's Boston Marathon trophies. He sold them to put food on the table for his family. Ellison "Tarzan" Brown won the Boston ...