The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin

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Excerpt from The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources, An Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages-Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and SocietiesInclosures and mounds of the prehistoric people, it is generally believed, constituted but parts of one system, the former being, in the main, intended for purposes of defense or religion, the latter, for sacrifice, for temple sites, for burial places, or for observatories. In selecting sites for many of these earth-works, the. Mound-builders appear to have been in¿uenced by motives which prompt civilized men to choose localities for their great marts, hence, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities of the West are founded on ruins of pre-existing structures. River terraces and river bottoms seem to have been the favorite places for these earth-works. In such localities, the natural advantages of the country could be made available with much less trouble than in portions of the country lying at a distance from water-courses. In Wisconsin, therefore, as in other parts, the same general idea of selecting points Contiguous to the principal natural thoroughfares is found to have prevailed with the mound-builders, for their works are seen in the basin of the Fox river of the Illinois, in that of Rock river and its branches, in the valley of Fox river of Green bay, in that of the Wisconsin, as well as near the waters of the Mississippi.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.