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The Sangamo frontier : history and archaeology in the shadow of Lincoln / Robert Mazrim.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mazrim, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Homes and haunts--Illinois--Springfield Region.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Historic sites--Illinois--Springfield Region.
- Historic sites.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Illinois--Springfield Region.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Archaeology and history--Illinois--Springfield Region.
- Archaeology and history.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Illinois--Springfield Region.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Springfield Region (Ill.)--Antiquities.
- Springfield Region (Ill.).
- Springfield Region (Ill.)--History--19th century.
- Springfield Region (Ill.)--History, Local.
- Sangamon River Valley (Ill.)--History, Local.
- Sangamon River Valley (Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 that shaped them were almost entirely forgotten. In The Sangamo Frontier, archaeologist Robert Mazrim unearths the buried history of this early American community, breathing new life into a region that still rests in Lincoln's shadow. Named after a shallow river that cuts
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611965938
- 9780226514239
- 0226514234
- 9781281965936
- 1281965936
- OCLC:
- 476229721
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