Oregon Trail (Other Keyword)
1-5 (5 Records)
The EKW #1 site (48NA969) was located during a class III survey of the Edness Kimball Wilkins State Park in 1984 (Eckles 1984). The site appeared as a large surface scatter of artifacts and bone, covering over five acres. The site was considered unusual at the time due to the high numbers of prehistoric ceramic artifacts. Late Prehistoric age projectile points, a variety of chipped stone tools, shell beads and animal bone were also recorded during the surface inventory. The density of surface...
Grant-Kohrs Ranch: An Archeological Glimpse of the Golden Years (1985)
A previously unrecorded household dump was exposed during archeological mitigation of a construction project at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Montana. The dump is located near the present location of the Coal Shed and extends under the access road toward the northwest corner of the 1890 addition to the main Ranch House. Analysis of the artifacts and stratigraphy in conjunction with the written and oral history of the area suggested two periods of deposition. The lower portion of the...
Ground-Penetrating Radar Tests at Possible Grave Sites in Eastern Kansas (2001)
Four small areas that might contain graves associated with use of the California and Oregon Trail segments in Eastern Kansas were examined with a group of geophysical instruments. Two sites contain apparent headstones with the names of the people believed to be buried there. All four of the sites also contain irregular stones without inscriptions that might be grave markers. Historic journal accounts written by travelers along the trails suggest the potential for multiple interments in the...
Kern River Pipeline Cultural Resources Inventory Report, Wyoming Segment: Volume 1 (1991)
The Kern River Pipeline will carry natural gas from the overthrust belt in southwestern Wyoming to a point of interconnection with the proposed Mojave Pipeline near Daggett, California. From there the combined Mojave/Kern River pipeline will convey the gas to the southern San Joaquin Valley near Bakersfield, California. For purposes of regulatory compliance, including review under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the Kern River project terminates at the point of...
Reconnaissance Report on Recreational Potentialities of the Braziel Reservoir, North Platte River Basin (Off Stream), Soots Bluff County, Nebraska (1947)
This report is prepared at the request of Region 7 of the Bureau of Reclamation in accordance with their control schedule of August 1947, for the National Park Service, as amended by letter dated December 22, 1947. The Bureau of Reclamation district office at Casper, Wyoming, was visited on October 30, 1947, and current information on Braziel Reservoir site was secured from District Manager I. J. Matthews. A field study and investigation of the entire reservoir site were made on November 1,...