Mark Dill's blog

As Carl Fisher considered promotions for the upcoming 1906 Decoration Day auto races at the Indiana State Fairgrounds dirt horse track he knew he needed the drama of competition - and confrontation. He keyed on the best known name among drivers in America, Barney Oldfield, a grassroots hero literally born in an Ohio log cabin in 1878 - really the 20th Century's answer to frontiersman Davy Crockett.