Box Butte Reservoir (Geographic Keyword)

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Missouri Basin Project, River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, Summary of Progress from the Beginning, In 1946 Through April 1952 (1952)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution.

This document summarizes the history and development of the Missouri Basin Project and Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program; created to meet the problem posed by the threat to scientific and historical data by the dam construction program in the Missouri Basin and elsewhere. The Missouri Basin water development program of the Bureau of Reclamation and Corps of Engineers has and will continue to inundate numerous sites on which the aboriginal inhabitants of the region...

The Prehistory and Early History of the Niobrara River Basin (1953)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler. G. Hubert Smith.

This report has been prepared in compliance with a letter dated February 2, 1953 from the Assistant Director, Region 7, Bureau of Reclamation, to the Acting Chief, Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution. The report is based, in part, on a previous report by the Missouri Basin project, River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, entitled “Appraisal of the Archeological and Paleontological Resources of the Niobrara River Basin, Nebraska, August 1951.” The present report, as well as the...