ROGER MEADE
Book Notes
Studies on Indiana: Indiana History
Resource Series. Volume I. A Bib-
liography of Theses and Dissertations
Submitted to Indiana Institutions of
Higher Education for Advanced
Degrees, 1902-1977. Compiled by Betty
Jarboe and Kathryn Rumsey.
(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau,
1980. xiii + 377p.; author index, name
and subject index, bibliography.)
This bibliography was compiled with the
idea that nowhere else has Indi-
ana been more thoroughly studied than
its universities, and that a bib-
liography to the collective theses and
dissertations written about Indiana
would enhance scholarship on Indiana.
Titles in this volume are classified
according to the subject headings used
in Dissertation Abstracts. Of particu-
lar value are the index to authors and
the main index which includes
entries for all popular names,
geographical locations, and subjects cited.
The compilers excluded specific
engineering, education, and management
principles and non-Indiana subjects.
Wisconsin Indians. By Nancy Oestreich Lurie. (Madison: The State His-
torical Society of Wisconsin, 1980.
66p.; illustrations, maps, reference mate-
rial.) This brief overview attempts to
place the Wisconsin Indian in relation
to national Indian policy. Throughout
this work Lurie seeks to explain the
Wisconsin Indian population's many
battles to secure their legal and polit-
ical rights and to gain control of their
community affairs. This volume is a
revised edition of Lurie's 1961 and 1969
editions of the same title. Increased
Indian militancy throughout the 1970s
has made Wisconsin Indians more of
a primer on major developments in
Wisconsin Indian history, rather than a
historical account of their existence.
The Saga of John Hammon,
Revolutionary War Hero and Owen County
Kentucky Pioneer. By Stratton Owen Hammon. (Louisville: The Pilgrim
Press, 1979. ii + 34p.; illustrations,
notes.) Despite the title of this book,
John Hammon is systematically ignored.
The author, Hammon's great-
great grandson, is more intent on
describing Hammon's friends and con-
temporaries, such as Daniel Boone, than
on describing Hammon's historical
significance. For instance, Hammon was
an Ohio River steamboat entre-
preneur, yet little detail or analysis
of his role in the development of steam-
boat travel is given. John Hammon might
have been a Revolutionary War
hero and an important Kentucky pioneer,
but it will take another study to
prove so.