Destination Indiana: Travels Through Hoosier History (Distributed for the Indiana Historical Society)

Boomhower, Ray E.; Jones, Darryl L.

ISBN 10: 0871951479 / ISBN 13: 9780871951472

Published by Indiana Historical Society, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Destination Indiana: Travels Through Hoosier History (Distributed for the Indiana Historical Society)
• Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871951479
• ISBN 13: 9780871951472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Based on Ray Boomhower's regular column in Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History, this lavishly illustrated guide highlights many of the beautiful and fascinating public historic sites located throughout Indiana and the many people who brought these places to prominence.

About the Author

RAY E. BOOMHOWER has been with the Indiana Historical Society since 1987. He is currently managing editor of the Society's popular history magazine, Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. A former reporter with the Rensselaer Republican and Anderson Herald newspapers, he received his master's degree in United States history from Indiana University, Indianapolis, in 1995. He is the author of the biographies, Jacob Piatt Dunn, Jr.: A Life in History and Politics, 1855-1924 (1997) and The Country Contributor: The Life and Times of Juliet V. Strauss (1998).

DARRYL JONES, an Indianapolis native and photographer, is perhaps best known for his photography for the books Indiana and Indianapolis and for his postcards picturing Indiana. Jones also provided the photographs for the Society publication A Simple and Vital Design: The Story of the Indiana Post Office Murals (1995).