Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — INDIANA’S BAD LANDS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA’S BAD LANDS.

As civilized as we are up in this part of Indiana we have right at our east door a wilderness that brooks no fellow in this state. Its wildness is unchanged, even since the days when game found it a paradise and fugitives from the law deemed it a safe retreat. It was here that train robbers on Thanksgiving eve tried to wreck a Baltimore and Ohio train, the second attempt with a week. As in days of yore an armed posses scoured the silent dune lands, but the bold prey was elusive. It is more than a decade ago since the last train robbery, but the robbers paid no attention to the great interval of inactivity. When Gary sprang up and the marshes and sand-dunes were transformed into a bustling city it was thought that good-bye has been said to Indiana's last frontier. But this does not seem to be the case. There yet remains a twenty-six mile stretch along the lake frontno man s land-—possessing the same vestiges of its old-time wildness, untamed by its newer surroundings, unawed even by the year 1914. The sand-dune country continues to have its wild and ancient charm, its traditional bad men.—Hammond Times.