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Kickapoo Club
An early 20th-century Illinois club turned its curiosity about archaeology and Native history into a slim but vivid record of local expeditions, artifact finds, and visits to important sites such as Cahokia. The result feels part field notebook, part community history.
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Note-book No. 1 of the Kickapoo Club
by Kickapoo Club
About the author
Published in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1914, Note-book No. 1 of the Kickapoo Club appears to have been created by a local club rather than a single named author. Records for the book consistently credit Kickapoo Club as the author, and library-style listings describe it as a short illustrated publication issued by the club.
From the surviving text and catalog records, the group seems to have been made up of Bloomington and Normal men with a strong interest in archaeology and Native American history. The book gathers reports and observations connected with expeditions in Illinois, including Cahokia, along with notes on artifacts and historical sites.
Because the author is a club and not an identifiable individual, a traditional personal biography is limited. What comes through clearly is the spirit of amateur scholarship: local enthusiasts documenting what they saw, what they collected, and what they believed was worth preserving for future readers.