The history of the state of Indiana : from the earliest explorations by the French to the present time, containing an account of the principal civil, political, and military events, from 1763 to 1897 . one were they wholly without amusements. Shooting at amark, hunting, fishing, trapping, running foot races, wrest-ling, jumping, pitching quoits, horse racing, dancing, sing-ing schools, log rollings, house raisings, corn huskings, andquiltings furnished a variety of amusements. Weddingswere great occasions, and when an itinerant preacher wouldmake his appearance the people for miles
The history of the state of Indiana : from the earliest explorations by the French to the present time, containing an account of the principal civil, political, and military events, from 1763 to 1897 . one were they wholly without amusements. Shooting at amark, hunting, fishing, trapping, running foot races, wrest-ling, jumping, pitching quoits, horse racing, dancing, sing-ing schools, log rollings, house raisings, corn huskings, andquiltings furnished a variety of amusements. Weddingswere great occasions, and when an itinerant preacher wouldmake his appearance the people for miles would gather tolisten to the story of the cross. Even in 1816, when Indiana was admitted into the Unionas a State, by far the greatest part of the State still be-longed to the Indians. The accompanying map will showhow little of it had been ceded by the Indians, but afterthe admission of the State, treaties were rapidly concludedby which the area of the territory open for settlement waslargely increased. Indian depredations did not wholly ceaseuntil some years after Indiana had been admitted into theUnion, but there were no Indian wars within her borders. OOKTH we- MniCHi\f/ PREPARED BY HN MELI5H IN 1817. SMITHS HliTORV OF INOIANA.
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