Henry Jones Jr. doesn't keep his name for long. His parents make the mistake of introducing him to the new family dog, an Alaskan Malamute, when the tot is still in the crib. Henry is so enamored with the dog that, by the time he's six, according to "The Ultimate Guide," he'll adopt the dog's name, Indiana, as his own.
Part of Indy rejecting his own name, though, comes from him wanting out from under his father's shadow. The two never get along well, with Anna Jones doing her best to act as a calming force as the three of them travel the world on a lecture circuit. Those travels, from 1908 to 1910, make up the earliest years of "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles." The circuit takes the Jones family from Egypt's Valley of Kings and Tangiers, Morocco, to Vienna and Beijing.
Indy is practically the Forrest Gump of the archeological world, even when he's a kid. His first adventures involve meeting Thomas Edward Lawrence, who Indy just calls "Ned." History, on the other hand, remembers him as Lawrence of Arabia. Indiana also runs across Howard Carter, the archeologist who discovered King Tut's tomb, and later, befriends Teddy Roosevelt himself in Kirinyaga in "British East Africa," a territory that encompasses Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar and Tanzania. Is it any wonder that the boy would decide to go his own way and become an archeologist, rather than follow in his father's literary footsteps?
