Indtended as an Illinois specific work on mound builders, Throop covers the area known as the American Bottoms:   

"The American Bottoms, the alluvial bottomlands bordering the Mississippi River, from Alton to Chester and below, as well as the bordering hills on both sides of the Father of Waters, show abundant proof that in this district was prehistoric man's greatest development north of the Rio Grande."

This 6-1/2" x 9-1/2", soft cover book contains 78 pages with 26 illustrations and one foldout with petroglyphs,  panorama view and map of Cahokia Mound Group.  $10.95  

Cahokia Mound in 1904 Foldout Petroglyphs Foldout Cahokia Group Map Sample  Plates - click on image to enlarge

CONTENTS

Mound Builders of Illinois Abundance of Flint Hoes in "Bottoms" Relics of Bone Relics of Seashell Pottery of the American Bottoms Relics of Wood, Skin and Basketry Missing Burial Customs Can We Reconstruct Life by Study of Burials? Stone Graves Jackson County Near Roots, Randolph County Stone Burials Near Fults, Monroe County St. Clair and Madison Counties Rattlesnake Mound, St. Clair County John B. Rolle Village Site, St. Clair County Site at French Village, St. Clair County "Dickson's Mound Builders," near Lewiston, Fulton County The Original Americans Virginia Indians, in 1584, Were Clean, Thrifty

Character Qualities of Known Red Men Prof. Moorehead Pays Tribute to Red Race Ohio-Illinois Indians Were Brave Unscrupulous Traders Curse to Indians Chiefs Logan, Cornstalk and Tecumseh Were Great Men Too Much Emphasis Placed on Battle-Cruelty Government Made Treaties; Upheld Trespassers Many "Frontiersmen" Were Dissolute Fellows Indians Lived Comfortably in Cabins Destroyer Williamson Meets Real Indian Fighters Logan, Great Orator; Tecumseh, Great War Chief Prof. Moorehead Displays Ancient War Flag Agriculture of the Red Men Hariot, 1587, Describes Crops Cultivated Beverly Gives Evidence of Long Cultivation of Maize Marquette and Others Add Interesting Testimony Modern Corn-Crib of Indian Origin DeSoto's Chroniclers Tell of Abundant Indian Crops America's Debt to the Red Men Did Thousands Leave American Bottoms Suddenly? Injun Stuff (a Poem)

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Cahokia Mound, from Photo Taken in 1904 Cliff Carvings from near Alton Peterson's and McAdams Map of the Cahokia Mounds Flint Tools in St. Clair County Cache Notched Hoes Found in East St. Louis Flint Spades Found near East St. Louis Flared Spades from Three Neighboring Counties Flared Spades or Hoes from the American Bottoms Various Types of Notched Hoes Interesting Find near Centreville Station, St. Clair County Cahokia Arrowheads Persimmon Mound Pipe, Human Figure, from Jersey County Bowl, Human Head, from Blythesville, Arkansas Pipe, Frog Figure, from near Centreville, St. Clair County Ceremonial Sceptre from Mound near Cahokia Effigy Pottery of the American Bottoms Dickson's Mound Builders, Horizontal View Dickson's Mound Builders, "Bird's Eye" View Pottery from Dickson's Mound Pipes, etc., from Dickson's Mound Collection of Arrowheads, etc., from Dickson's Mound Effigy Pot and Concretions Found in Mound and Grave Vessels from Offermann's Mound, Monroe County Dickson's Unfinished New Work Our Relic Cabinet