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National Geographic : 1936 Sep
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE SPEED DEMONS OIL UP FOR LA FAYETTE'S SOAPBOX DERBY! This is a downhill coasting race among home-made toy cars-all commercially built vehicles are barred. Winners in a hundred or more local Indiana races compete in the annual national at Akron, Ohio. Photographs by Willard R. Culver ONCE THIS SMALL HOUSE AT VINCENNES WAS THE TERRITORIAL CAPITOL OF PRACTICALLY ALL THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN When, in 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was added to the "Indiana," or Northwest Territory, the whole vast new domain from Ohio to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to Louisiana was governed from this two-roomed house! William Henry Harrison was territorial governor. His old home, Grouseland, called "The White House of the West," also stands at Vincennes. 278
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