Jigger Johnson was a Maine lumberjack who in the late 19th and early 20th century became a larger than life New England folk hero. Credit: Courtesy of U.S. Forest Service Editor’s note: This story was ...

INDIANAPOLIS – From the day he was 19, standing nervously in front of one of those roll-top wooden desks in his father’s office in northwest Indiana, Jigger Sirois was going to be a racecar driver.