Catalogue of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky Mountains

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...Several clusters of small conical mounds on a low ridge, 2 miles east of Clarkton; similar mounds at intervals along Portage Bay Bayou; numerous monnds in small groups on and near the firm of William Seqnois, 4 miles from Point Pleasant; a number of similar mounds 3 miles north of Point Pleasant, on the road to New Madrid; and several clusters of small mounds north of New Madrid, along the road from thence to Charleston. Reported by-F. S. Earle. Inclosure, including one oval and several circular mounds, numerous hut-rings, and one sink on the west side of West Lake in Sec. 16, T. 24 N., R. 13 E., about 13 miles north of New Madrid. Explored by 0. Crosswell; skeletons and a large number of specimens of pottery found. Description and figures of vessels by A. J. Connnt, Trans. St. Lonis Acad. Sci., vol. 3 (1668-1877), pp. 355-364. By C. Crosswell, same volume, pp. 531-538. In settlement A, PI, B, of Mr. Potter, who gives a figure diagram and description, in Contrib. to Archowl. Mo. (1880), pp. 11, 12, PIs. B and C. Inclosure, mounds and hut-rings, some of the mounds pyramidal, one terraced 4 miles west of New Madrid on Sec. 22, T. 22 N., R. 13 E., in Lewis Prairie. Some of the mounds explored by Prof. Swallow, in one of which were found the remains of a house; mnch pottery was also obtained. Described by Prof. Swallow in Eighth Rep. Peab. Mns., pp. 17-46. F. W. Putnam, Am. Nat., vol. 9 (1875), pp. 321-338 and 393-406. W. B. Potter, Contrib. to Archneol. Mo. (1880), pp. 13, 14, PIs. B and D. This ia probably the group referred to by Breckeuridge, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., vol. 1 (1818), pp. 151 and 159. Atwater. Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc., vol. 1 (1820), p. 189. Noticed in Report. Newton County. Mound on Five Mile Creek, some 8 miles southeast of...