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Donald F. Carmony. Indiana, 1816–1850: The Pioneer Era. (The History of Indiana, number 2.) Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana Historical Society. Indiana Historical Bureau, Indianapolis. 1998. Pp. xiv, 924. Cloth $39.95, paper $29.95.

This long-awaited second volume of the standard history of the Hoosier state is both a substantial achievement and a partial disappointment. Donald F. Carmony's research is prodigious, and no other scholar can match his comprehensive knowledge of Indiana's ambitious but always under-funded pioneer state government. He covers politics and public finance in overwhelming detail and canal building and public education in reasonable detail, but at the terrible cost of ignoring all other topics. Although Carmony is one of the few historians with a living memory of one-room rural schools and horse-powered farming, there is little of social history in his 632 pages of text. The great utopian experiments at New Harmony fall into this period, but neither George Rapp nor Robert Owen is ever mentioned. The remarkable word Hoosier first appeared during the early 1830s, but Carmony says nothing of its significance or its mysterious etymology. 1

The other four volumes of this series contain maps, illustrations, and real footnotes. Readers without a detailed understanding of Indiana geography will be at a loss without a map of their own, and Carmony's prodigious endnotes cover 227 pages without page number headings. Despite the author's dream that this book will appeal to non-professional readers, it is emphatically a work for reference, supported by a seventeen-page bibliography and a forty-five-page index. . . .

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