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 came across another interesting video from Jay Leno's collection of cars. He claims to have the largest collection of these magnificent machines in the world. The Duesenberg Company was the brain child of two brothers, Fred and August Duesenberg, born in Germany during the 1870's, they immigrated to Iowa in 1900.