Set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana, “Freckles” is American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter's 1904 novel about the titular character, a one-handed adult orphan who takes a job guarding timber in the swamp. Freckles has lived all his life in a Chicago orphanage and has been missing his right hand as long as he can remember. Now an adult, he is hired on by the Grand Rapids lumber company to guard their valuable timber in the Limberlost...

Elnora Comstock's first day at high school is a disaster. The other students laugh at her clothes, and then -- to make matters worse -- she learns she has to pay for her books and tuition. --- [Excerpt from back cover.]

Some sit vacant along desolate country roads, surrounded by cropland, weedy fields, or scrubby woods. Others stand ignored, as they slowly deteriorate in big cities and small towns. They were the pride of their communities, meeting the needs of generations of Hoosiers, as places of learning, worship, refuge, or justice. John Bower has captured the essence of these once-vital structures from our collective past in emotionally moving black-and-white...

So many trees, so little time. What's a nature lover to do? If you can't tell the difference between an Eastern hemlock and a scrub pine, or a cottonwood and a black willow, 101 Trees of Indiana is the field guide for you. 101 Trees of Indiana contains all you need to identify a tree in the Hoosier State, whatever the season. Not since Dr. Charles Deam's Trees of Indiana was published in 1953 has the subject been covered so thoroughly. Ecologist Marion...

This is a book about history, beauty, and love, the history of monuments and the people they honor. -Taken from back cover.

The author drove almost 15,000 miles in ten South-Central Indiana counties, stopping to photograph machinery, buildings, vehicles, and man-made structures that were decaying, worn-out, or abandoned. The photographs were shot over a three and a half year period between 2000 and 2003. No specific locations are listed for the photographs, which seek only to record the spirit that has been left behind by the day-to-day lives of ordinary people.

Otto Ping began taking pictures of the people and places of his native Brown County, Indiana, in 1900 at the age of seventeen in order to make some extra money. He continued doing so for forty years while he worked at such other endeavors as peddling, farming, canning, and chicken raising. Unlike the painters and photographers who came to the county in these years to capture quaint and rustic scenes for sophisticated audiences elsewhere, Ping made...

This book is about the journeys that stay with us because they were memorable--sometimes, even extraordinary. We all have memories of journeys involving cars, trains, buses, bridges, roads, and more. We remember how they affected us, changed our lives--it's the journeys that make us who we are. Each compelling photograph in this remarkable collection will trigger such reminiscences--some pleasant, some sad, but all special.

Presents color photographs of the natural landscapes found in the parks and preserves of Indiana, depicting forests, rivers, prairies, dunes, and swamps in each season of the year.

The 435 plates in this volume were originally published by Audubon, in London, during the years 1827-1838. This is a reprint of the 1937 edition, except that 65 illustrations, painted at a later date and included in that edition, are omitted