Stories from the state of Indiana that put a lively twist on Hoosier history. . .
Entertaining and sometimes jaw-dropping, these true tales were recorded in reliable accounts or by reliable witnesses from early times to the present-and provide anecdotes from Indiana history that are funny, dramatic, quirky, and just plain amazing. Learn about:
- General Ambrose Burnside, who blundered his way through the Civil War, relocated to Rhode Island, and served three terms as governor and two terms as US Senator-but is most remembered for his unique facial hair-that is, Burnside's "sideburns"
- The three movie actors from Indiana who played Tarzan on screen
- The Revolutionary War battle that took place in the famed Indiana sand dunes
- The nineteenth-century town that may or may not have existed, but whose name lives on and more