Tour the Castle's Top Floor After its First Fifty Years

Imitations of human foot-prints occur in the United States on solid rocks or on boulders. These artificial tracks have been considered by some as real impressions of human feet, and consequently dating from a time when the rocks were still in a state of softness. This view is entirely rejected by geologists. On two of the slabs in the Museum, which have been carefully cut out of the rocks, may be seen, respectively, two impressions of feet represented as being covered with moccasins of a pattern still in use among the Sioux. These slabs are of sandstone obtained from the banks of the Missouri river. The third specimen is a Cattish block of quartzite, which bears on one of its flat sides the impression of a naked foot, each toe being distinctly marked. This relic was obtained in Gasconade county, Missouri.

Return to start of the Top Floor of the Castle's Main Hall in 1886