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  • Anderson High moved to a new location in 1997, but the Wigwam is still used for games.

    USATODAY.com - The other great places to watch high school hoops 2004

  • Three or four years earlier, I’d been given yet another important book—one called Wigwam and Warpath, which told unflinchingly how my own Bible-pounding forebears had driven the Indians from this very land and exterminated them in cold blood.

    Letter to a Godchild Reynolds Price 2006

  • Three or four years earlier, I’d been given yet another important book—one called Wigwam and Warpath, which told unflinchingly how my own Bible-pounding forebears had driven the Indians from this very land and exterminated them in cold blood.

    Letter to a Godchild Reynolds Price 2006

  • Another was May 18, 1860, when Republican delegates nominated Abraham Lincoln inside a big wooden structure called the Wigwam, built especially for the occasion at Lake Street and the Chicago River.

    Robert Loerzel: When The World Watched Chicago 2010

  • Another was May 18, 1860, when Republican delegates nominated Abraham Lincoln inside a big wooden structure called the Wigwam, built especially for the occasion at Lake Street and the Chicago River.

    When The World Watched Chicago Robert Loerzel 2010

  • Another was May 18, 1860, when Republican delegates nominated Abraham Lincoln inside a big wooden structure called the Wigwam, built especially for the occasion at Lake Street and the Chicago River.

    Robert Loerzel: When The World Watched Chicago Robert Loerzel 2010

  • Another was May 18, 1860, when Republican delegates nominated Abraham Lincoln inside a big wooden structure called the Wigwam, built especially for the occasion at Lake Street and the Chicago River.

    Robert Loerzel: When The World Watched Chicago 2008

  • The gym in Anderson is still called the Wigwam because Anderson is known as the Indians 'cause the Indians were the first inhabitants there 1,000 years ago.

    Where the Game Matters Most 1998

  • Far out on Dry Pond in an old meeting house known as the Wigwam, the

    Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne

  • Its meetings were held in a huge temporary wooden building called the Wigwam, so large that 10,000 people could easily assemble in it to watch the proceedings.

    The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln Helen Nicolay 1910

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