. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . JARS FOUND IN SOUTH-EAST MIS-SOU-RI 42 W( History of Missouri. call them the Mouncl-build-ers. They were a race of men of more brain than the Red men,for they took pains to mark the earth and the rocksin such a way that time could not wipe out the factthat such a race had lived. The In-dians have no. TOOLS OF BONE USED BY MOUND-BUILD-ERS. such care or pride of race. They were born just toget through life with few wants and no high aimsthat would prove steps to lead up to great hunt, eat, drink, sleep, and now and then fight,will sum up
. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . JARS FOUND IN SOUTH-EAST MIS-SOU-RI 42 W( History of Missouri. call them the Mouncl-build-ers. They were a race of men of more brain than the Red men,for they took pains to mark the earth and the rocksin such a way that time could not wipe out the factthat such a race had lived. The In-dians have no. TOOLS OF BONE USED BY MOUND-BUILD-ERS. such care or pride of race. They were born just toget through life with few wants and no high aimsthat would prove steps to lead up to great hunt, eat, drink, sleep, and now and then fight,will sum up the tale of an In-dians life. The Red Alcn and the j\Io2tnd-biiilde7s. 43 But the Mound-build-ers must have had an aimand a taste for the fine arts. It is but in late yearsthat men of sci-ence made note of the strange factthat St. Lou-is was built on a well laid-out plan oflarge and small mounds. It was at first thought that these hills were madeby the Red men, and for years they were known asIn-dian Mounds, in which the Red men laid theirdead. But as these mounds had to give place tothe thrift of our own race, and the earth was dugdown to clear theway for the streets » ^ ^ of a big town, in theheart of these strangemounds were foundqueer works of art,jars and urns made of clay, with marks ^ ® o ^^smo ® on them to prove that they h
Size: 1719px × 1453px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidhistoryofmissour00macn
