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  • Perhaps that strange folk men now called Mound-Builders had treasure of their own which they laid away with the dead.

    People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • The great race of which I speak is known as "the Mound-Builders."

    The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

  • The Mound-Builders were sedentary, and undoubtedly cultivated maize as their chief article of food.

    The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

  • The Mound-Builders buried their dead, most often, in

    The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

  • The Toltecs have left ample records of their existence and gorgeous civilization, in noble monuments and very numerous though till recently undecipherable inscriptions; and many similarities lend weight to the theory that the empire of the Mound-Builders, in the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri valleys, was the result of a great Toltec migration from

    The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

  • They were altars for sacrifice, and, like the Persians, whose sacrificial ceremonies strikingly resembled those of the Mound-Builders, they were sun-worshippers.

    The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

  • The Mound-Builders occupied, often in thickly settled communities, the region about our great Northern Lakes, the valleys of the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Missouri, and the regions watered by the affluents of these rivers, and a wide and irregular belt along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

    The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

  • That the Mound-Builders were a far more civilized race than the Indians is clearly revealed by the relics found in and about the mounds.

    The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

  • But how remote the Mound-Builders were from the era of European settlement, whence they came; how, whither, and when they vanished, -- these are questions before which science stands harassed, impotent to answer positively.

    The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

  • There is no doubt that the Mound-Builders were miners.

    The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

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