Nearly one thousand years ago, Native peoples built a satellite suburb of America's great metropolis on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as many as 30,000 people lived in and around present-day Cahokia, Illinois. While the mounds around Cahokia survive today (as part of a state historic site and UNESCO world heritage site), the monumental earthworks that stood on the western shore of the Mississippi were razed in the 1800s. But before and after they fell, the mounds held an important place in St. Louis history, earning it the nickname "Mound City." For decades, the city had an Indigenous reputation. Tourists came to marvel at the mounds and to see tribal delegations in town for trade and diplomacy. As the city grew, St. Louisans repurposed the mounds--for a reservoir, a restaurant, and railroad landfill--in the process destroying cultural artifacts and sacred burial sites. Despite evidence to the contrary, some white Americans declared the mounds natural features, not built ones, and cheered their leveling. Others espoused far-fetched theories about a lost race of Mound Builders killed by the ancestors of contemporary tribes. Ignoring Indigenous people's connections to the mounds, white Americans positioned themselves as the legitimate inheritors of the land and asserted that modern Native peoples were destined to vanish. Such views underpinned coerced treaties and forced removals, and--when Indigenous peoples resisted--military action. The idea of the "Vanishing Indian" also fueled the erasure of Indigenous peoples' histories, a practice that continued in the 1900s in civic celebrations that featured white St. Louisans "playing Indian" and heritage groups claiming the mounds as part of their own history. Yet Native peoples endured and in recent years, have successfully begun to reclaim the sole monumental mound remaining within city limits. Drawing on a wide range of sources--including maps, daguerreotypes, real estate deeds, court records, travelers' accounts, scientific treatises, government records, and personal correspondence--Patricia Cleary explores the layers of the Indigenous history of St. Louis. Along with the first in-depth overview of the life, death, and afterlife of the mounds, Mound City offers a gripping account of how layers of Indigenous history have shaped the city's growth, landscape, and civic culture.
In the heart of Madrid, teenager Kira McIness enters a shadowy world of thieves and pickpockets to recover a pair of stolen earrings. There she confronts a formidable adversary, and struggles with Moroccan tradition when -- for mysterious reasons -- the wrong person confesses to the crime. Against a backdrop of medieval plazas, an American school, and crumbling middle-eastern tenements, Kira must draw inspiration from Francisco Goya's enigmatic artwork to uncover the truth about herself, her obsession with the crime, and whom she can trust before the wrong person is sent away and the facts become forever silent.
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: From France to the Frontier -- Chapter 2: Settling "Paincourt" : Indians, the Fur Trade, and Farms -- Chapter 3: "A Strange Mixture" : Rulers, Misrule, and Unruly Inhabitants in the 1760s -- Chapter 4: Power Dynamics and the Indian Presence in St. Louis -- Chapter 5: Sex, Race, and Empire: The Peopling of St. Louis -- Chapter 6: "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil" : Conflicts over Religion, Alcohol, and Authority -- Chapter 7: A Village in Crisis: Conflict and Violence on the Brink of War -- Chapter 8: "l'Année du Coup" : The "Last Day of St. Louis" and the Revolutionary War -- Chapter 9: The Struggles of the 1780s -- Chapter 10: St. Louis in the 1790s: The Enemies Within and Without -- Conclusion: "The Devil Take All" or "A Happy Change"? : The End of European Rule and the American Takeover -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.
Waggish tales of dogs, Christmas, and murder—by sixteen of today's best-loved crime novelists! A temperamental Yorkie provokes Yuletide mayhem at an English country house . . . A puppy forgotten in Santa's bag helps quell a coup at the North Pole . . . During a snow-white Christmas, a Portuguese water dog noses out murder at a Vermont inn . . . and many more, including: “Clicker Training” by Parnell Hall “The Emerald Collar” by Leslie O’Kane “Yellow Snow” by Jeffrey Marks “O Little Hound of Bethlehem” by Taylor McCafferty “Toy Pincher” by H. Robert Perry “The Fencing Crib” by Mark Graham “Red Shirt and Black Jacket” by Virginia Lanier “The Village Vampire and the Yuletide Yorkie” by Dean James “Psycho Santa’s Got a Brand-New Bag” by Deborah Adams “Midnight Clear” by Jane Haddam “Fowl Play” by Patricia Guiver “The Reunion” by Lillian M. Roberts “Good Dog Wenceslas” by Melissa Cleary “Habits” by Jeremiah Healy “Eye Witness” by David Leitz These thrilling tales of canine derring-do give dog lovers the treat of celebrating Christmas with sleuthhounds of many breeds—as they sniff out crime and render holiday justice.
Gathers selections from stories by Judy Blume, Clyde Robert Bulla, Beverly Cleary, Terri Fields, Johanna Hurwitz, Astrid Lindgren, Patrical MacLachlan, Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna, Patricia C. McKissack, Daniel Pinkwater, Susan Shreve, and Jerry Spinelli
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