The hoosiers

Chapter 1. Indiana and her people

Chapter 2. The rural type and the dialect. The word "Hoosier". Pioneer difficulties. The dialect

Chapter 3. Bringers of the light. Religious influences. Early illiteracy. Caleb Mills. Julia L. Dumont and Catharine Merrill

Chapter 4. An experiment in socialism. New Harmony. Robert Dale Owen and William Maclure. Thomas Say and the scientists

Chapter 5. The Hoosier interpreted. Edward Eggleston. James Whitcomb Riley

Chapter 6. Crawfordsville. "The Hoosier Athens" Lew Wallace. Maurice Thompson. Mary H. Krout and Caroline V. Krout.

Chapter 7. "Of making many books there is no end" Indiana a point of departure. Fiction

History and politics

Miscellaneous

Chapter 8. An Indiana choir. Early writers. Forceythe Willson and Elizabeth Conwell Willson. Later poets. The Hoosier landscape.

Indiana and her people

The rural type and the dialect. The word "Hoosier" ; Pioneer difficulties ; The dialect

Bringers of the light. Religious influences ; Early illiteracy ; Caleb Mills ; Julia L. Dumont and Catharine Merrill

An experiment in socialism. New Harmony ; Robert Dale Owen and William Maclure ; Thomas Say and the scientists

The Hoosier interpreted. Edward Eggleston ; James Whitcomb Riley

Crawfordsville. "The Hoosier Athens" ; Lew Wallace ; Maurice Thompson ; Mary H. Krout and Caroline V. Krout

"Of making many books there is no end." Indiana a point of departure ; Fiction ; History and politics ; Miscellaneous

An Indiana choir. Early writers ; Forceythe Willson and Elizabeth Conwell Willson ; Later poets ; The Hoosier landscape

A centennial postscript. Changes of fifteen years ; The persistent literary industry ; One hundredth birthday.