Why read Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley?

Book cover of Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley: Volume II

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Recent archive discoveries of many of the original draft surveys and field notes of Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis (and others) reveal previously unseen details of many of the earthwork sites depicted in Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848), as well as material that was edited out…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Neal W. Fandek

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This book blew my mind.

I had no idea there were so many, and such vast, ancient structures throughout mid-America. It showed me how very little I knew about America, and how very wrong the standard American pre-Columbian narrative was.

What's truly sad is that the vast majority of these ancient monuments have been deliberately destroyed. They were an inconvenient truth: that this was not a virgin continent ripe for exploitation but a thoroughly settled land inhabited for thousands of years. We were lied to!

From Neal's list on The best books on ancient Midwestern America.