Foot-Prints of Vanished Races in the Mississippi Valley - Being an Account of Some of the Monuments and Relics of Pre-Historic Races Scattered Over Its Surface, With Suggestions as to Their Origin and Uses #254854

Although nearly all the accounts of the expeditions of the earlier explorers of the continent of North America contained notes of striking memorials, which were met with in their journeys, such as mounds, embankments, fortifications and the like, still, all such notices were too meagre and superficial to give them any special scientific value. Through the labors of the American Antiquarian Society, the attention of the scientific world was first called to the countless, and often imposing memorials of pre-historic America, and their proper study began.