A. R. Crook
Published: 2016-08-19
Total Pages: 36
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Excerpt from The Origin of the Cahokia Mounds A few miles east of St. Louis, on the at alluvial plain of the Mississippi, in Madison and St. Clair Counties, Illinois, are several score of mounds or low swel'lings from a few to a hundred feet in height. For more than a century they have attracted attention being in a fertile region, on a main line of travel, and near a center of population. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."