Part II: Hunting Territory to U.S. Public Domain
Contents
The Diary Keepers: History, On the Record
- The Portage Connection
- The Vermilion Salt Springs
- Postscript
- A Saltwater-Logged, Bedrock Layercake
- The First Two Centuries of Euro-American
- Presence East of the Mississippi, 1607–1803
- Land Claims, Trading Alliances, and Wars
- Chance Meeting of Two Legends: Pontiac, Croghan in East-Central Illinois
- The New Americans
- The Natural Scene
- The Rivers of Mid-Continent
- The Bountiful Hunting Grounds
Indian Land Cessions: Tribal Territories Transformed into U.S. Public Domain
- Concept of Indian Territorial Boundary, 1763–1803
- The Treaty of Greenville, 1795
- The Kaskaskia Purchase, 1803
- Tribes Ceding Lands in the Study Area, 1803–1819
- Nation of the Illinois
- Tribes of the Kickapoo
- Reflections
