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The Sangamo frontier : history and archaeology in the shadow of Lincoln /
When Abraham Lincoln moved to Illinois? Sangamo Country in 1831, he found a pioneer community transforming from a cluster of log houses along an ancient trail to a community of new towns and state roads. But two of the towns vanished in a matter of years, and many of the activities and lifestyles th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The making of an American frontier
- The arrival of archaeology and the shadow of Lincoln
- Before the Americans
- The Americans
- At home, 1800-1840
- Under the house, behind the house
- Goods in the forests
- The hole in the map
- A new frontier
- Overlooking wilderness : excavations at Elkhart Hill
- Earthenware at Cotton Hill : the Ebey-Brunk Kiln site
- The origins of a state capital : the Iles Store site
- Moses's Sangamo : relocating a lost town
- Exploring Moses's Sangamo : excavations at Sangamo town
- Lincoln's New Salem : history and archaeology
- Behind Lincoln's New Salem : archaeology and revisionism
- The end of the trail.