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THE INDIANA HISTORY BULLETIN · COLAVITO (2013) · HELMAN (2025)
What it is: three items, because three are what the build used. The Indiana History Bulletin carries the Northern Indiana Historical Society's 1926 investigation of the Vosburg mound — the official answer to the giants story — which this build holds, at present, as preserved and quoted in the scholarly examination below: the report's text (the Litchfields' excavation; eight skeletons, spokes of a wheel, heads to center; copper plates, not armor; no giants) is quoted from the Bulletin by the examiner and the build prints it at that carriage strength. The W-11 pass located the Bulletin's own seat precisely: the run stands digitized in Indiana Memory, the Indiana State Library's collection, and the July 1926 issue (volume 3, number 10 — cataloged with "Mounds—Indiana" among its subjects, consistent with the examiner's 1926 dating) is the issue to read; its pages are image-viewer bound and were not readable's text seat, so the direct read stands in the pull list as a located, one-step task, and the fringe citation of an "October 1925" Bulletin item claiming nine-foot measurements is identified here as unreliable — it contradicts the report's text as preserved and no such reading is used anywhere in the build. The examination itself — Jason Colavito's 2013 study of the Walkerton giants — is used as scholarship: a careful transmission history (Tribune 1925; Time, November 16, 1925, read first-hand in the build — one giant, copper plates; the Rosicrucian Digest of 1965; Brandon 1978; DeLoach 1995; Woodward 2013), whose limits print with it (a skeptic's brief, and its author shares the build's want of the Tribune original). And Aaron Helman's centenary feature in the South Bend News-Times (October 12, 2025) closes the story's hundred years at feature strength — the modern town, reading its own legend in its own county's paper.
Principal sources: Indiana History Bulletin (1926), as preserved in Colavito's examination (2013), read whole; Indiana Memory catalog record for vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1926); Time, November 16, 1925, read first-hand; South Bend News-Times, October 12, 2025.