On the frontier of the young state of Indiana, formal church buildings and trained pastors were few and far between. That's where circuit riders came in.
In the summer of 1863, a young woman wrote her cousin about the "visit paid to the citizens of Corydon and vicinity by Morgan and his herd of horse thieves.”
There is no solid evidence to back up any theory of a “French Connection” to Southern Indiana's great buffalo salt lick.
The trial that followed a 1917 murder at an elegant downtown Indianapolis hotel revealed contemporary prejudices based on ethnicity, race, and gender.