"Hoosier Mosaics" by Maurice Thompson contains a collection of short stories illustrating the lives of the people who lived in the small towns of Indiana. This volume contains the stories: Was She a Boy?, Trout's Luck, Big Medicine, The Venus of Balhinch, The Legend of Potato Creek, Stealing a Conductor, Hoiden, The Pedagogue, and An Idyl of the Rod which bring smalltown, midwestern life to modern readers.