Category: History - American

Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals

I. THE COMPARATIVE METHOD OF STUDY 37 II. DISTRIBUTION OF MOUND-BUILDING INDIANS 43 III. EARLY TRAVEL IN THE INTERIOR 53 IV. HIGHLAND LOCATION OF ARCHÆOLOGICAL REMAINS 68 V. WATERSHED MIGRATIONS 94

Chapters

3. PART II

Beginning with the first highways of America, the first monograph of the series will consider the routes of the mound-building Indians and the trails of the large game animals,...

7. CHAPTER IV

In examining the standard work on the exploration of the American mounds, the _Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology_ of the Smithsonian Institution, by Dr. Cyrus Tho...

12. CHAPTER IV

Turning from a particular region, where, because of the close proximity of licks and feeding-grounds, the buffalo made local roads, it becomes of interest to look at the country...

11. CHAPTER III

The first explorers that entered the interior of the American continent were dependent upon the buffalo and Indian for ways of getting about. Few of the early white men who came...

6. CHAPTER III

It has been noted that a considerable portion of archæological remains in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin are inland--or away from the largest river valleys. The lands on...

10. CHAPTER II

The range of the buffalo or bison in the United States formerly extended from Great Slave Lake on the north to the northeastern provinces of Mexico on the south--from 62° latitu...

4. CHAPTER I

The latest explorations of the mounds erected by those first Americans, known best as the mound-building Indians, have revolutionized our conceptions of the earliest race of whi...

5. CHAPTER II

The mounds of these first Americans of which we know are found between Oregon and the Wyoming valley, in Pennsylvania, and Onondaga county in New York; they extend from Manitoba...

8. CHAPTER V

A few descriptions of the local roadways of the mound-building Indians have been cited; reasons for believing that they used the watersheds, to a greater or less degree, as high...

9. CHAPTER I

When the first Europeans visited the Central West two sorts of land thoroughfares were found by which the forests could be threaded: paths of the aborigines and paths of the gre...

1. VOLUME 1

2. PART I

I. THE COMPARATIVE METHOD OF STUDY 37 II. DISTRIBUTION OF MOUND-BUILDING INDIANS 43 III. EARLY TRAVEL IN THE INTERIOR 53 IV. HIGHLAND LOCATION OF ARCHÆOLOGICAL REMAINS 68 V. WAT...