The Sangamo frontier [electronic resource] : history and archaeology in the shadow of Lincoln / Robert Mazrim.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.Description: x, 352 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 0226514242 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226514250 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780226514246
- 9780226514253
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Homes and haunts -- Illinois -- Springfield Region
- Archaeology and history -- Illinois -- Springfield Region
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Illinois -- Springfield Region
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Illinois -- Springfield Region
- Historic sites -- Illinois -- Springfield Region
- Sangamon River Valley (Ill.) -- History, Local
- Springfield Region (Ill.) -- Antiquities
- Springfield Region (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century
- Springfield Region (Ill.) -- History, Local
- 977.3/56 22
- F549.S7 M39 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index.
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.
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