Cahokia Mounds: America's First City

 Cahokia Mounds: America's First City by William Iseminger (2010) 176 pages

I read this in preparation for an honor's project I did for a class before finals. 

William, or Bill Iseminger is the current manager at the Cahokia site and has spent years helping preserve and share the history and archaeology of the mounds and Mississippian Culture. Iseminger details carefully the artifacts found in the Cahokia mound site, and an overview of what the city used to look like and how its people may have spent their days. 

This book is a wonderful read for St. Louisians, as it details not only the historic Cahokia site, but also the mounds of the once great "Mound City". It's pretty sad to read about how most of the mounds were destroyed, and how little preservation went into the ones that remain, but Bill along with the archaeologists, scientists and now the Osage Nation have taken care to preseve the rest.