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..". extremely valuable... enthusiastically recommend(ed)... "-- Western Folklore These hilarious and slightly off-colorstories, although gathered in Indiana, reflect the ancient origin and universalityof the joke. The chuckle, the grin, the uncontrolled belly-laugh evoked by Jokeloreattest to the popularity of this ancient form of folk literature.

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Eagle may be the only city in the arid American West that was first settled on an island. Four young miners left Idaho's gold fields in 1863 to farm what is today called Eagle Island, between the Boise River's north and south channels. Not easily accessed by Indian raiding parties, the island also allowed ready irrigation of the first croplands. It was an island farming couple, Tom and Mary Aiken, that founded the village of Eagle on the north...

Based on a collection of interviews conducted in the late 1930s, Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless is an invaluable record of the lives and thoughts of former slaves who moved to Indiana after the Civil War and made significant contributions to the evolving patchwork of Hoosier culture.The Indiana slave narratives provide a glimpse of slavery as remembered by those who experienced it, preserving insiders' views of a tragic chapter in America...

A curious mixture of humor and Hoosier horror stories as it relates to Hoosier folk tales.