Here's a site with information about California's old Lakeside track that attracted Barney Oldfield among others.

If you haven't heard of "Steampunk" but you have an interest in turn-of-the-20th century histoy you may want to check it out with a Google search.

While researching the evolution of motorsport and the automobile itself one thing becomes apparent: what a different world we live in from the early days of the 20th Century. When you consider how treacherous the early roads were - craggy and rutted, a quagmire during wet weather - even the most skilled drivers would be challenged. In the United States this was particularly problematic as the still young country did not have the benefit of centuries of infrastructure development found in Europe.

Recently I have been researching the June 1909 Cobe Trophy and its support race the Indiana Trophy but poring over digitized copies of microfilm I spent weeks collecting earlier this year. One of the things I like doing is capturing images of the photographs that were published in these old newspapers - in this case the Indianapolis Star, the Indianapolis News and the Indianapolis Sun. I refer to these as "images" to make the distinction between what they are as opposed to the original photographs. They are like fossils, artifacts of something that in many cases no longer exists.