Told often, checked in the ledger

THE CLAIMS THIS SECTION DOES NOT RETELL AS FACTS

Mishawaka's most-repeated oddities are worked in full — telling, teller and record side by side — in the sections that own them, and are entered here, each with its verdict, so this drawer is complete. That the city was named for Princess Mishawaka, the daughter of Chief Elkhart who died in 1818 and lies buried at Lincoln Park: a fiction of 1875, cast in bronze in 1932, failed in the Folklore section and in the bronze entry above. That her suitor Grey Wolf was a Potawatomi: the novel makes him a Shawnee of Elkhart's own people, the city's own summary makes him a Potawatomi, and a valley souvenir book of 1931 renames him Grey Wing — the nation and the name both drift between carriers, in the Folklore section. That the HUMVEE was designed in Mishawaka: the manufacture is this city's, whole and documented; the design claim fails, in the Inventors section. That Mishawaka's road racers of 1909 were "among the fastest in the world," as the city's history has it: tested in the Racing section, and every checkable element matches the New York Simplex's record — the name collision that forced the local marque to rename itself Amplex. That Garden-All tractors were made in Mishawaka: a standing conflict — "developed in Mishawaka" on weak carriers against manufacture at the company's own Liberty, Indiana address — printed unresolved in the Tractors section and never promoted to maker. That the comedian Jim Gaffigan is a Mishawaka product: "raised in Chesterton," by his own sentence, in the People section. That John Philip Sousa played Mishawaka: the music record's test is negative, in the Music section. That Mishawaka has a zoo: it does not, and the Zoo section is the negative printed whole. That Morris Park Country Club is Mishawaka's: it is South Bend's, corrected in the Private Clubs section. That Dragoon Trail was named for British dragoons riding between the forts: impossible on the forts' own flags and dates — Fort Wayne was American from its 1794 building and Fort Dearborn American from its founding — failed in the Corridors section. And the one modest claim that fails backwards: that Mishawaka never built cars in the brass era — it built them from 1906 to 1920, and one of them carried the first man killed at Indianapolis, in the Automobiles section and in the entry above. One more telling stands where it belongs and is pointed to, not retold: the man buried sitting up in Mishawaka City Cemetery, told as lore, at his address, in the Haunted Places section. Each of these entries prints what is told and what the record shows, and leaves the two side by side — which is this section's whole method, applied at length there.

Sources: the Folklore section (the Princess, the bronze, Grey Wolf's nation, Grey Wing); the Inventors section (the HUMVEE design claim); the Racing section (the 1909 claim, the New York Simplex match); the Tractors section (Garden-All, conflict printed); the People section (Gaffigan, "raised in Chesterton"); the Music section (the Sousa test, negative); the Zoo section (the negative whole); the Private Clubs section (Morris Park Country Club, South Bend's); the Corridors section (the Dragoon name test); the Automobiles section (the brass-era makers); the Haunted Places section (the man buried sitting up, told as lore).