It was only a matter of time before artist and mapmaker Tom Willcockson got his name on the cover of a book.

The skills were there, collected from his background in history and years spent working at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Couple that with an interest in illustrations, and it was only a matter of time before the Woodstock man compiled something such as his April publication.

“Twelve Moons: A Year with the Sauk and Meskwaki, 1817-1818,” tells the month-to-month story of a couple of upper Midwest Indian tribes.