Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Pleistocene Ice Age -- 3. The Pleistocene in the Great Lakes Region -- 4. Where to Find Vertebrate Fossils -- 5. Collecting the Fossils -- 6. Dating the Fossils -- 7. A Bestiary of Great Lakes Region Ice Age Vertebrates -- 8. Important Pleistocene Vertebrate Sites in the Great Lakes Region -- 9. Interpretation of the Fauna -- 10. The Holocene and the Aftermath of the Ice Age -- Appendix -- References -- Illustration credits -- Indices.