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The John Penman Story, 1835-1887
Chiefly, an autobiography of John Penman that was written in the Utah State Penitentiary between February 1886 and February 1887. He was born near Crossgates, Scotland on February 1, 1835. He was the son of Richard Penman (b. 1810) and Cathrine Paterson (b. 1809). He began working in the coal mines at age 11 or 12 with his father. He married Isabella Hutchison (b. 1838) on June 1, 1857. They both joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1862 in Scotland. They sailed from Liverpool to New York City on June 1, 1863. They arrived in Salt Lake City on October 13, 1863. After being a Church member for 19 years, he was called on a mission to Great Britain in 1882. After many talks...
Indian Mounds of Wisconsin
Annotation More mounds were built by ancient Native American societies in Wisconsin than in any other region of North America -- between 15,000 and 20,000 mounds, at least 4,000 of which remain today. Most impressive are the effigy mounds, huge earthworks sculpted into the shapes of birds, animals, and other forms, not found anywhere else in the world in such concentrations. This book, written for general readers but incorporating the most recent research, offers a comprehensive overview of these intriguing earthworks and answers the questions, Who built the mounds? When and why were they built?Using evidence drawn from archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, linguistics, and the traditions ...
The Dash Reeves Site
This newest addition to the American Bottom Archaeology series reports on the Dash Reeves site, an extensive Middle Woodland habitation site that represents a major floodplain village and locality for the production of stone tools. The village area consists of clusters of pits and a dense refuse heap containing hundreds of diagnostic Middle Woodlands artifacts: an extensive collection of lamellar blades and blade cores, projectile points, Hill Lake ceramics, a diversity of flake, blade, and core tools, and several exotic Hopewell-like pieces, including earspool and human figurine fragments. Inhabited between 150 A.D. and 300 A.D., during the Hill Lake phase, Dash Reeves appears to have been ...
