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The Terror of Terre Haute
Bud Taylor and the 1920s

By John D. Wright
(Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2008. Pp.vii, 320. Illustrations, index. Paperbound, $20.00.)

During the 1920s, Terre Haute, Indiana, achieved a presence in American life that would be unavailable to a city of 65,000 today. Sergei Rachmaninoff played piano in its opera house. Will Rogers made jokes about its train station. The city had its name casually dropped in the songs of Cole Porter and in the stories of Ring Lardner. 1
      Terre Haute was also home to a number of individuals who had made their names nationally. In the summer of 1922, renowned labor leader Eugene Debs was living at 451 North 8th Street, having been delivered there the previous December by a torchlight parade of well-wishers. Debs had just returned from the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, where he had been imprisoned for delivering a speech in Canton, Ohio, criticizing the nation's involvement in the Great War. Meanwhile, little more than a block away and a week later, hometown boxing sensation Charles "Bud" Taylor thrilled a capacity crowd of 1,400 at the Grand Opera House with his first round knockout of Solly Epstein. . . .
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