Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: Metropolis on the Mississippi
Chapter Two: Indigenous Migration and Early Europeans
Chapter Three: War and the Missouria Foundation of St. Louis
Chapter Four: The Indigenous World of Eighteenth-Century St. Louis
Chapter Five: Claiming the Mounds for the Nation
Chapter Six: The Indigenous Reputation of “Red-Head’s Town”
Chapter Seven: Repurposing the Mounds for Urban Development
Chapter Eight: “Little Hope of Its Standing Fast”: The Big Mound in the 1850s
Chapter Nine: The Destruction of the Big Mound
Chapter Ten: Writing the Afterlife of the Mounds
Chapter Eleven: The Indigenous Past and Present as Local History
Chapter Twelve: Celebrating Mounds and their Builders in the Pageant and Masque
Chapter Thirteen: Commemoration and Preservation
Chapter Fourteen: Layers of Indigenous Histories
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index