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  • Prologue: Ephraim George Squier and the history of American anthropology
  • Literary ambitions : the genesis of an anthropologist
  • In search of the mound builders : the Squier-Davis association
  • Archaeology and the Smithsonian Institution : editing and publishing the Squier-Davis manuscript
  • Interpreting the mound builders : the archaeology of Squier and Davis
  • Revisiting the mounds : the Iroquois and the archaeology of western New York
  • The burden of proof : American Indian traditions and the Walam Olum
  • Idols and Indians : the archaeology and ethnology of Nicaragua
  • The mind of man : the serpent symbol and the reciprocal principles of nature
  • Nahua nations and migrations : the archaeology and ethnology of Honduras and San Salvador
  • Ancient Peru : an indigenous civilization
  • The science of men and nations : Ephraim George Squier and the American school of ethnology
  • Epilogue : insanity and the "eclipse of genius".