Marquette saw a dragon on the bluffs in 1673 and we painted over the spot

Piasa. 'the bird that devours men' in Illini. and before anybody says 'thunderbird' — no. read Marquette's actual journal from the 1673 voyage. he describes TWO monsters painted high on the limestone above the Mississippi, big as a calf, deer horns, red eyes, a beard like a tiger, a man-ish face, bo……