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The Governors of Indiana By Linda C. Gugin and James E. St. Clair (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2006. Pp. xx, 434. Illustrations, notes. $34.95.)
This handy volume brings into one place basic information about each of Indiana's governors, from William Henry Harrison to Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. Ranging from four to twelve pages, the entries contain a narrative summary and a list for further reading. That many of the recommendations point to biographical dictionaries or to histories of the entire state indicates the great need for further biographical and historical analysis of Hoosier executives. Quotations in the narratives are not cited, and crossediting might have placed Logan Esarey's Messages and Papers of Jonathan Jennings, Ratliff Boon, and William Hendricks (1924) in the list of references for all three of the governors.

Life of Lincoln Produced by the Sanders Group (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2005. 2 DVD set; 100 minutes. $19.95.) Young Lincoln Produced by Todd Gould (Indianapolis: The Indiana Historical Society, 2005. DVD; 60 minutes. $19.95.)
Life of Lincoln offers a brief summary of the sixteenth president's public life. Opening with depictions of Lincoln's presence on the modern landscape, the didactic video is accompanied by a teacher's guide and driven by simple questions posed and answered by the onscreen hostess. Samples from the image collections at the Indiana Historical Society together with footage and interviews of Illinois Lincoln sites and personnel present Lincoln as a precocious Hoosier boy who grew into a consistently antislavery man. Several short "enhancement" segments cover topics such as document preservation, Lincoln photography, and political cartoons.
Young Lincoln opens with the question of Indiana's impact on Lincoln. Interspersed with scenes of the southern Indiana countryside and accompanied by fiddle music, scholars of the Lincoln family, Indiana, and the Midwest present the future president as a self-made pioneer man, weighing in on topics including Abe's reading and humor, the deaths of his mother and sister, and his flatboating experience. Less structured and more solidly grounded than Life of Lincoln, this brief video would serve as an excellent introduction for Hoosiers of all ages interested in the boyhood years of the Civil War president.

Pike County Indiana History Articles Compiled by the Pike County Historical Society and Sandy McBeth (Petersburg, Ind.: Pike County Historical Society, 2006. Pp. 136. Index. Paperbound, $20.00.)
This volume reprints local history articles, written by county historian Sandy McBeth, that ran weekly in the Pike County Press-Dispatch during 2000. Unnumbered hours of research and writing culminated in stories about local connections to the Revolutionary, Civil, and World Wars. Other stories describe the Lincoln family's migration through the area, the underground railroad, local businesses and schools, an early twentieth-century campaign to close "houses of ill fame," and holiday and wedding customs.

Man with a Price on His Head The Life and Times of George Boxley (Sheridan, Ind.: Sheridan Historical Society, 2005. Pp. 60. Photographs, illustrations. Paperbound, $25.00.)
Sales of this published version of an unattributed 1930s typescript benefit the restoration of the pioneer cabin built by George Boxley (1780–1865). This early abolitionist was born in Virginia, was convicted and narrowly escaped execution for helping two runaway slaves, and spent years away from his family on the run in Ohio and Missouri, finally setting in Indiana in 1828. The prose is old-fashioned, but Boxley's story adds to the early history of abolitionism in the Midwest. A collection of family photos and newspaper clippings finishes the volume.

Kiantone Chatauqua County's Mystical Valley
By Deborah K. Cronin
(Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2006. Pp.xix, 217. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, endnotes. Paperbound, $13.40; electronic, $4.95.)

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