Educational Map Series: The Portolian Collection old map of illinois An Anthology of True Adventures

An Anthology of True Adventures

Marked in red is the location of the gold fields and the major routes to these fields

tundra sprinkled with small villages

black bears and red wolves

The Algonquian-speaking Indians were the state’s original inhabitants

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