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From: Young Students Learning Library
Date: 19960101
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People from Indiana are often called Hoosiers. It is not certain where this word came from. It may have come from the question ``Who's yer?' ' that pioneers asked when a newcomer arrived in the state. Or it may have come from the name of a canal builder, Samuel Hoosier, who lived about 150 years ago. Hoosier hired Indiana men rather than those from other states. He said they worked the best.

Among the well-known Hoosiers are the poet James Whitcomb Riley, and the novelists Booth Tarkington and Theodore Dreiser. The songwriter Cole Porter was a Hoosier, too, as were ...

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