Native American Monuments of Missouri
9781467171731
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Take a trip back through 10,000 years of Missouri history.
Wherever you live in the Show-Me State, chances are good that someone was there thousands of years before—a member of one of the many ancient civilizations that called Missouri home. These include the Hopewells, who built large towns throughout the Kansas City area; the Mississippians, who built cities with towering pyramids and large plazas along that great river, especially around St. Louis (nicknamed “Mound City” for that reason in the early nineteenth century) and the Bootheel; the Oneontas, who built massive hilltop enclosures along the Missouri River in central Missouri; the Niúachis (Missourias), for whom the state is named; the Osages and Illiniweks (Illinois), who lived in towns in southwest and northeast Missouri; and the artists who carved marvels in stone at Thousand Hills and Washington State Parks, all of which you can see today, absolutely free.
Author Neal W. Fandek guides Missourians on a tour of ancient wonders in their own backyard.
Walls, Rock, and Rum
9781467159067
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Complex History of One of Our Great State Parks.
Middlesex Fells, located north of Boston, is one of the most storied state parks in the United States.
Home to Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years, this land became part of Charlestown, the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Puritans transformed the landscape, marked woodlots with stone walls, and gave the largest lots to wealthy men. They harvested timber and quarried stone from the Fells to build houses, ships, and walls and to fuel brickmaking and rum distilling. Enslaved labor, acquired through the transatlantic trade, supported these markets.
Today the Fells is preserved, but beyond its trails and wooded vistas lie deeper stories of Indigenous communities and colonial transformation. Alison C. Simcox and Douglas L. Heath trace this history with new research published for the first time.
