The Sangamo Frontier

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Journey to Sangamo        

Part 1: Americans, Frontiers, and Archaeology

1 The Making of an American Frontier

2 The Arrival of Archaeology and the Shadow of Lincoln

Part 2: Illinois in History

3 Before the Americans

4 The Americans

Part 3: Archaeology of the Frontier

5 At Home, 1800–1840

6 Under the House, Behind the House

7 Goods in the Forests

Part 4: The Origins of Sangamo

8 The Hole in the Map

9 A New Frontier

Part 5: The Archaeology of Sangamo

10 Overlooking Wilderness: Excavations at Elkhart Hill

11 Earthenware at Cotton Hill: The Ebey-Brunk Kiln Site

12 The Origins of a State Capital: The Iles Store Site

13 Moses’s Sangamo: Relocating a Lost Town

14 Exploring Moses’s Sangamo: Excavations at Sangamo Town

15 Lincoln’s New Salem: History and Archaeology      

16 Behind Lincoln’s New Salem: Archaeology and Revisionism

17 The End of the Trail

Notes
Index