Below is a collection of articles about the great American driver Joe Dawson who won the second Indianapolis 500 Mile Race in 1912. Also check out this article on Joe from Vanderbilt Races.
Earl Kiser was one of America's early professional auto racing drivers and a chief rival to his much more well-known contemporary, Barney Oldfield. Kiser succeeded Oldfield on Alexander Winton's Bullet II race car when Barney and Winton had a falling out. Kiser was also a colleague of Indianapolis Motor Speedway founder Carl Fisher.
I just uploaded three articles about practice for the first Indianapolis 500. They describe some intense action with big name stars of the day cutting fast laps: David Bruce-Brown, Ralph Mulford, Caleb Bragg, Lewis Strang and Fred Belcher whose POV on the race is the subject of a new book. Reading this stuff really puts you at the Brickyard on May 23, 1911.