The Piasa: Or, The Devil Among the IndiansE. B. Fletcher, printer, 1887 - 48 pages An account of certain pictographs formerly existing near Alton, Illinois, with various theories of their origin. |
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Allouez alphabet Alton bad spirits bank battle beast believe beseiged Big Elk bird bluff body bones buffalo called canoes canyon cave cavern chief colors Dablon deer devil devil-birds dragon eagle earth eighty feet elevation enemies engravings etched ethnologist evil spirits existence face fact Father Marquette fifty feet fight fish flying fowl glyphs graphic Green Bay head hippopotamus horns human hundred hunting Huron ichthyosaur Illinois river incised Indian nations Indian traditions Joliet known Lake Lake Huron Lake Michigan legs lived Mascoutins megalosaur Mestchecepe Mestchegamies Miamis Mischasipi Mississippi monster petroglyphs Monsters painted monsters were delineated Mound Builders mouth Nicollet numerous object language Ottawa Ouatogo pale-faces Pere perpendicular petro Peuotomies Piasa pictographs PIUSA plesiosaur Pottawattamies powerful Indian confederacy Quebec ramphorhyncus reached reptile sandstone saurians Savages serpent shape species Starved Rock tail talons teeth territory tions tribes village warriors wild wings Wisconsin Wisconsin river