Publisher's Synopsis
This volume provides an overview of Indiana history based upon primary and secondary accounts of significant events and personalities. It is a rich treasure trove, including work by William E. Wilson, Peter T. Harstad, George Rogers Clark, Chief Shabonee, Roger D. Branigin, Val Nolan, Jr., Emma Lou Thornbrough, John Bartlow Martin, Meredith Nicholson, Elwood Haynes, Richard Lieber, George Ade, Howard H. Peckham, Dan Wakefield, and many more. Ralph D. Gray has provided each selection with a brief contextual introduction. The work is divided into ten chapters: "The First Inhabitants"; "The Era of the American Revolution"; "Harrison, Tecumseh, and Territorial Politics"; "Life on the Indiana Frontier"; "The Era of the Civil War"; "Into the Modern Era"; "The New Century"; "Indiana Writers"; "Hoosier Life after 1920"; "War, and Cold War"; "Recent Trends." There are summaries, of such subjects as Indian achievements, the Battle of Tippecanoe, the process of statehood, the pioneer period, the gas boom, the growth of manufacturing and industry, inventions by Hoosiers, the Ku Klux Klan, the home front during World War II, and a look at the Hoosier character.
