'BLICATION OF THE INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY • F- 521 - 148- VOL 16- N02 INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF TRUSTEES SARAH EVANS BARKER, Indianapolis f\.liCHAEI A. BucKMAN. Indianapolis, Second Vice Chajr MARY ANN BRADLFY, Indianapolis EDWARD E. BREEN, f\·farion, First Vice Chair DIANNEJ. C.'\RT).JI::L, Brown'ilOWll PATRICIA D. CURRAN, Indianapolis EDGAR CLtNN o,wrs, Indianapolis DANIEL M. EN'"I, lndiHnapolis RJCIIARD D. fELDMAN, Indianapolis RJCIIARD E. FORD, Wabash R. R-wI I AWKINS, Cannel THO�IA5 G. HOBACK, Indianapolis, Secretary lVlARTIN LAK•:, Marion LARRY S. LU'IOJS,Indianapolis POLLYjON TZ LENNON, Indianapolis jAMES H. MADISON, Bloomington MARYj ANE MEE.KER, Carmel ANUR£W \V. NICKLE, South Bend GEORC:F F. RAPP, Indianapolis BONNIE A. REILLY, indianapolis £VALINE H. RHODEHAMI�L, Indianapolis l.r\N M. ROLLAND, Fort \r\'ayne, Chair jAMES C. SHOOKJR., Indianapolis P. R. SwEENEY, Vincennes, Treasurer RoBERT B. 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Cou-::.<;, Indianapolis THE SUMMER ISSUE OF Traces RICHARD D. FELDMAN, Indianapolis RAJ.PJI D. GRAY, Indianapolis features the lush landscapes painted by Indiana jAMJ::S H. MADISON, Bloomington DALE OGDEN, Indianapolis artist Frank V. Dudley. From 1921 to his death in LESTER M. PONDER, Indianapolis ROBERT L. R£10, Evansville a 1957, Dudley journeyed to cottage he built on the ErucT.SA'IlJ\\'l!JSS, Bloomington BERNARD VV. SHEFIIAN, Bloomington shores of Lake Michigan to capture on canvas the RIC!lARDS. SIMONS, �I arion \rVIGGINS R., beauty of the Indiana Dunes. In addition to his WJLIJA,\1 H. j Bloomington DESIGN painting, Dudley, with his wife, Maida, campaigned R. LLOYD BROOKS, Design DireCLor S�F.l-J), to preserve the dunes as a national park. 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Burney: A Ray E. Boomhower Hoosier Pioneer in Public Health Stephen J Jay 4 Images of Indiana 26 The Homemaker's Friend: The Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet Connie Swaim ECEIV 2004 INDIANA HISTORICAl SOCIETY LIBRARY FROI(T COlER: The lloosicr Kitchen Cabinet, built b1 New Castle's Hoo,ier �lanufacturing Compan), promoted cfficit'llC) in kitchens throughout the rounLry. Credil: IllS. OPPOSITE: A viC\\ of tile Indiana Dunes lakeshore from Mount Tom, painted b) lloo,icr anist FJ<tnk Dudley. Credit: Indiana State Museum. 1-:D ITORS' PAGE Dorothy and Dorris Shelton (second and fourth from left), daughters of missionary Dr. Albert Shelton, pose in traditional Tibetan costumes with a group of friends. Although raised as proper midwestern girls, the two spoke Tibetan almost as their first language. ' FOR BIBLIOPHILES SUCH AS MYSELF, OPENING A NEW BOOK is always an exciting occa ion. There are portions of a book that hold higher interest fo r some people than others, particularly in nonfiction works. The arcane attraction of footnotes ha even spawned the writing of entire tomes on the subject, including Anthony Grafton's delightful l997 book The Footnote: A Curious History. In explaining why he chose to write on what some may see as a trivial matter, Grafton noted that the papers of Hoosier journalist and writer John "like the high whine of the dentist's drill, the low rum­ Bartlow Martin, and subsequent returns to that ble of Lhe footnote on the historian's page reassures: the national treasure for other projects. tedium it inflicts, like the pain inflicted by the drill, is My fascination for how a writer researches a book not random but directed, part of the cost that the ben­ has led me to ask various Indiana authors to write efits of modern science and technology exact." Other articles for this magazine detailing how they crafted seemingly minor parts of a book also grab people's their books. None of these authors have ever traveled attention. From personal experience, I can tell you that as far for their subjects as did Dougla Wissing of woe be to any publisher who decides to release a book Bloomington, Indiana. Wissing, assisted by a Clio without an index, as fans of that particular end matter Grant fr om the Indiana Historical Society, braved the will be sure to voice their complaints loudly and often. elements, possible attacks by bandits, and rich cups of Whenever I peruse a new book's pages, particularly yak-butter tea to research the life of Dr. Albert Shelton, biographies, I immediately turn to the preface or the renowned Disciples of Christ missionary and acknowledgment section. It is here that an author explorer who spent approximately twenty years in the thanks those who have contributed to the book's cre­ wilds of Tibet. During the early twentieth century, ation, both physically and mentally. What really inter­ Shelton won acclaim for his travels, becoming a well ests me, however, is an author's detailing of how he known in his time as the fa mous Dr. David Livingstone or she conducted the painstaking job of research-the did for his adventures in Africa. In researching his people interviewed, the archives visited, the reels of book, Wissing, whose work has appeared in national microfilm consulted to produce the book. I love to new papers and magazines, traveled throughout read about the various repositories an author visited the Himalayas fr om northern Yunnan across Tibet, to unearth the mysteries of his or her subject' life. epal, and India to the range's terminus on the It always reminds me of my first visit to the Library Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He also explored the of Congress in Washington, D.C., where I examined Kham region of eastern Tibet, which had been closed to foreign travelers for almost a century. In this issue of Traces Wissing outline his que t for Shelton's past and the fascinating connections between Tibet and the Hoosier State, especially the Oouri hing Tibetan community in Bloomington. His determined efforts to capture the es ence of his sub­ ject reminds me of a quote attributed to obel P1ize-winning author William Faulkner, who ob erved, "Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all to get the book written." Ray E. Boomhower TRA CS Sp,,g 2oo• Dr. Albert Shelton treats a Tibetan boy. The Sheltons and other foreign missionaries were deeply aware of the power of Western medicine. A land of soaring Himalayan mountains and deep river canyons, Kham is the fr actious borderland between the Chinese and Tibetan peoples, primarily populated by bellicose Tibetan Khampa tribesmen. 4 TRACES Spritog 2oo< ith Tibetan bandits prowling the ancient between Indiana and Tibet that has now endured fo r trade route through the wild frontier region a century-a link that joined both Kalsang and me. of Kham, there was no vehicle willing to A land of soaring Himalayan mountains and deep chance the southern trail to Batang. o I river canyons, Kham is the fractious borderland jounced west along the northern route on between the Chinese and Tibetan peoples, primarily a rattletrap bus that was stuffed with Tibetan tribes- populated by bellicose Tibetan Khampa tribesmen. In men wearing long Kham pa knives. My Khampa Shelton's day the region was the centuries-old battle­ guide, Kalsang Anyetsang, sugg sLed we stop at ground between the rulers of two ancient imperial cui­ his home village, Dahor, fo r information on the tures-the Manchu emperor in Beijing's Forbidden trails and a much-needed break.