Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes

Acknowledgments

xxiii I am grateful for the comments on various versions of this manuscript by Robert Boszhardt (formerly of Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center), Robert Hall (professor emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago ), Jay Toth (Seneca, archaeologist for the Ho-Chunk Nation), Janice Rice (Ho-Chunk, University of Wisconsin–Madison), and an anonymous reviewer. I like to thank the excellent and long-suffering University of Wisconsin Press editors and staff, not only for their professionalism and high standards but for their patience. I am indebted to Amy Rosebrough of the State Archaeology office and state archaeologist John Broihahn for assisting in numerous ways. Amy has long been conducting research on effigy mounds and graciously shared her research information and many of her own maps. Others who contributed to this book in various ways are the late Reid Bryson (UW Climatic Research Center) and his son Robert Bryson (Mojave National Reserve), George Christiansen, Victoria Dirst (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, retired), Jeff Durbin, Mark Dudzik (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources), Fred Finney, Robert Granflaten (Wisconsin Historical Society), Robert Jeske and John Richards (University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee), Amelia Janes, Lisa Marine (Wisconsin Historical Society), David Mollenhoff, Susan Otto (Milwaukee Public Museum), Tom Pleger (UW–Baraboo/Sauk County), Sissel Schroeder (University of Wisconsin– Madison), Philip Salkin (Archaeological Consulting and Services), James Stoltman (professor emeritus, University of Wisconsin–Madison), Woody Acknowledgments Wallace (Earth Information Technology), Dodge County Parks, Effigy Mounds National Monument, Milwaukee Public Museum, Minnesota Historical Society Archives, Mississippi Valley Archeology Center, Ohio Historical Society, Northern Illinois University Press, Mapping Specialists, Ltd., Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Wisconsin Historical Society Museum Archaeology Program, and the University of Texas Press. Much love to my wife Nancy and son Kevin for not only putting up with stacks of papers and books around the house but also for help with editing drafts (Nancy), taking photographs (Kevin), and much computerrelated work. Finally, a book like this would not have been possible without the Wisconsin Historical Society, which has been collecting and recording information on mounds and other archaeological sites for more than one hundred years, and the Wisconsin Archeological Society, which has published a truly impressive amount of information for over a century on Wisconsin Indian mounds. I hope this book will reflect well on the efforts of both of these institutions to make material and data available for scholarly and public research. Despite all this help, I alone bear the responsibility for any errors, omissions, misrepresentations, or mistakes in this admittedly bold interpretation of the effigy mound landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes region. Acknowledgments xxiv Spirits of Earth ...