The Hoosiers

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Meredith Nicholson. The Hoosiers

The Hoosiers

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. INDIANA AND HER PEOPLE

CHAPTER II. THE RURAL TYPE AND THE DIALECT

CHAPTER III. BRINGERS OF THE LIGHT

CHAPTER IV. AN EXPERIMENT IN SOCIALISM

CHAPTER V. THE HOOSIER INTERPRETED

I. Edward Eggleston

II. James Whitcomb Riley

CHAPTER VI. CRAWFORDSVILLE

I. General Lew Wallace

II. Maurice Thompson

III. Mary H. Krout—Caroline V. Krout

CHAPTER VII “OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END”

I. Fiction

II. History and Politics

III. Miscellaneous

CHAPTER VIII. AN INDIANA CHOIR

I. Early Writers

II. Forceythe Willson

III. Later Poets

INDEX

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Meredith Nicholson

Published by Good Press, 2022

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“He held his fiddle against his breast—perhaps out of affection—and his bow in the middle, and like a cart-whip; things enabling him, however, the more effectually to flog his instrument when rebellious: and the afflicted creature would scream right out in agony! Indeed, his Scremonah bore marks of premature old age—its fingerboard being indented with little pits, and its stomach was frightfully incrusted with rosin and other gummy things, till it looked as dark and careworn as Methuselah! Dan was, truly, no niggard of ‘rosum,’ for he ‘greased’ as he termed it, between his tunes every time! and then, at his first few vigorous jerks, fell a shower of dust on the agitated bosom of his instrument, calling out in vain for mercy under the cruel punishment.”[14]

James Whitcomb Riley corroborates the impression of earlier writers in a characteristic poem, “My Fiddle:”[15]—

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