READINGS IN INDIANA HISTORY

This is a 385-page compilation of 150 short excerpts from almost that many different sources, intended for use in schools. It covers a wide variety of topics in Indiana history. Some of the chapters and excerpt titles are:

-Indiana when Englishmen First Came
The Miami Indians, Natives of the Wabash Country, Indian Life and Customs, The French in Indiana: Ouiatanon

-George Rogers Clark Conquers the Northwest
Capture of Kaskaskia, Clark moves on Vincennes

-Coming of the Settlers
Blazing the Wilderness Trail: Whetzel’s Trace, Migration to the New Purchase

-Pioneer Farming
Cost of Preparing a new farm, Early scientific agriculture: Stock, Hogs!!

-Transportation and Travel
The “Buffalo Trace”, A plank road, Some early stage lines, an old time western tavern, Flatboating days: building a flatboat.

-Pioneer society
Some Hoosier characteristics, the shooting-match: the weapons, the “Cornstalk Militia”

-Hunting stories
Snake-killing on the Big Wea, Wolf tales of the forest.

-Civic ideals of the Pioneers
An early court scene, legislating in the backwoods

-Health of the Pioneers
Sickness and exposure in the wilderness, the life of the pioneer physician, some old recipes

-Political Parties
A Jackson convention, perils of a congressional campaign