

CHAPTER XXIII. 



MAN IN THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 



Professor N. H. Winchell* has given a complete list of 

 human remains supposed to have been found in the loess of 

 the Missouri Valley, which belongs to the deposits of the 

 Iowan stage of the glacial recession. But so much uncertainty 

 surrounds several instances of these that it will be sufficient 

 to mention only three of the best authenticated and most 

 significant cases, viz., those found at Lansing, Kansas, and 

 at Florence near Omaha, Nebraska, and at St. Joseph, Mis- 

 souri. 



The important discovery at Lansing, Kansas, was made in 

 February 1902, by Mr. Martin Concannon while excavating 

 a tunnel underneath his residence, and was brought to the 

 notice of the public by Mr. M. C. Long of Kansas City, Mis- 

 souri. The skeleton was found seventy-two feet from the 

 mouth of the tunnel. The excavation was carefully and 

 repeatedly examined by various expert geologists, including 

 Professors T. C. Chamberlin, R. D. Salisbury, S. W. Williston, 

 E. Haworth, N. H. Winchell. Warren Upham and W. H. 

 Holmes. I can also speak from careful personal inspection 

 of the whole locality. Subsequently also Mr. Gerard Fowke 

 and Mr. Long were engaged by Mr. Holmes to dig a cross 

 section striking the tunnel near the place where the skeleton 

 was found. The unanimous testimony was that the remains 

 occurred as reported in undisturbed loess. In fact several 

 other less important human relics were found by Mr. Fowke 

 in his excavations. 



* "Records of the Past," vol. vi (May 1907), pp. 14&-157. 



