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DOCUMENT Full-Text R. W. Neuman.

Since its inauguration in 1946, the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution, along with other cooperating Federal, State and local agencies, has concentrated its efforts toward the salvage of archeological materials that will be lost by the construction of dams and the flooding of reservoirs along the Missouri River and its tributaries. The surveys and excavations have been conducted at historic military forts, trading posts, pioneer settlements and Indian villages; however, most...

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...