Midwest Archeological Center Publications

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

This report documents historical and archeological research regarding the historic use of the area now subsumed within Voyageurs National Park by members of the Bois Forte Band of Minnesota Chippewa Indians. It synthesizes historical and archeological data collected over a 16-year period by the author and Voyageurs National Park Cultural Resource Specialist Mary Graves. The period from 1736 through 1941 is the basic focus for research, with the period from 1880 to 1930 considered in greatest...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John B. Anderton.

A Phase I Archeological Survey was conducted of the Little Beaver Lake Campground and the White Pine Trail parking lot expansion area within the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on August 8th, 2008. The campground, a popular drive-in spot for tenting and small trailer use is located about 2.5 miles (4 km) north of H-58 at the terminus of the Little Beaver Lake Road, on the southwest end of Little Beaver Lake. The White Pine Trail parking lot is located approximately ¼ mile (0.4 km) to the south...

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In 1974, the Congress of the United States authorized the establishment of the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site in Mercer County, North Dakota, to preserve archeological vestiges of the Hidatsa and Mandan Indians and to commemorate the cultural history and lifeways of those important native peoples of the Northern Plains. Starting in 1976, the National Park Service undertook an extensive program of archeological and ethnohistorical research designed to illuminate the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ralph Solecki.

The agreement between the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution in 1945, which committed the latter agency to the scientific responsibility for archeological investigations in the Missouri River Basin, touched off the greatest series of integrated archeological investigations over a wide area that this country has ever seen. The archeologist worked with the rushing waters of each new Missouri River Basin reservoir virtually at its heels. If the work was to be done, it must be...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan Collins. George Rapp, Jr.. John A. Gifford. Dennis Rondine. Margaret Thompson.

Seventy-six plant samples and forty sediment samples from voyageurs National Park were analyzed for phytoliths. Leaf, stem, root, inflorescence, and where possible, seed phytoliths were extracted from each plant sample as a key against which sediment phytoliths could be compared. All phytoliths were examined by light microscopy using a research petrographic microscope equipped with a Nomarski Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) system. Some phytoliths were also studied using a Scanning...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce P. Bessken.

This resource contains the project report for the Pinnacles Water Swale Project conducted at the Badlands National Park. Fieldwork was carried out to search for any cultural surface material or features prior to the construction of a one foot deep by 175 foot long by ten foot wide swale to carry water away from the Pinnacles residence yard using a park grader blade for construction.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

Suggested sequence of Pre-Ceramic subsistence patterns in the Great Plains Area (circa 9000 B.C. - 1000 A.D.).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

In this document, Richard P Wheeler synthesizes in chart form knowledge of Early Man – or rather of pre-pottery making men – in the Plains area according to inferable subsistence patterns, in chronological order. On this level of anthropological abstraction, the task was not difficult because of the scarcity of known information. Wheeler’s perspective also includes a brief history of the development of American paleontology.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John J. Hoffman.

This document presents a general survey of prehistoric houses found along the Middle Missouri River. Photographs and descriptions of location, construction and use of these structures is included. The Archaeological Salvage Program urges the excavation and documentation of these sites to add to what is already known concerning the history of the land and its prehistoric occupation. Salvage archaeology has progressed rapidly in the great reservoir areas of the Missouri River during the last...

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

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marvin F. Kivett.

A preliminary archeological and paleontological reconnaissance of the Cedar Bluff Reservoir area in Trego County, Kansas, was undertaken during the period August 12 - 15, 1946. It was the purpose of the recon­ naissance to locate archeological and paleontological materials and to determine whether such remains are likely to be destroyed or damaged by construction of the reservoir. Fieldwork, which was done by Marvin F. Kivett and J. M. Shippee, consisted mainly of surface collecting and some...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. J. Bauxar.

This is a preliminary report of an archeological reconnaissance of the Des Lacs Reservoir area. The purposes of the reconnaissance were to investigate the archeological and paleontological significance of the area, to determine to what extent archeological and paleontological sites will be damaged by construction of the reservoir, and to determine what further survey and excavation is necessary to preserve a record of the prehistory of the area. This report is based on the results of a one-day...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jack T. Hughes. Wesley L. Bliss.

The proposed. Lake Solitude Reservoir site was visited on August 21 and 22, 1946, by Wesley L, Bliss and Jack T. Hughes. Lake Solitude was the sixth of ten reservoir sites investigated by this party during August and September of the 19A-6 field season. Examination of Lake Solitude was part of an archeological and paleontological reconnaissance of top priority reservoirs in the Wyoming - Montana region. The reconnaissance formed an initial step in the project of salvaging the most significant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

Archeological Investigations of the proposed Onion Flat, Soral Creek, and Raft Lake reservoirs, in the Big Horn River Basin, Fremont County, Wyoming, were made in June and July, 1949, by the Missouri River Basin Survey, Smithsonian Institution, The reservoirs are irrigation projects of the Bureau of Reclamation (see map accompanying this report), The surveys, made in accord with the memorandum of understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, were undertaken in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Theodore E. White.

This resource is a brief overview of the Smoky Hill River Sub-Basin with supplementary reports on the Webster Reservoir, Kirwin Reservoir, Kanopolis Reservoir, Glen Elder Reservoir and Cedar Bluff Reservoir. The reports were conducted by Theodore E. White, Paleontologist, under the supervision of field director Waldo R. Wedel of the Missouri Valley Project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carl R. Falk. S. Holen. R. E. Pepperl.

In mid-June 1976, the Division of Archeological Research was contacted by the Midwest Archeological Center concerning the need for a preliminary evaluation of cultural resources located in the vicinity of the planned White River Development, Badlands National Monument, South Dakota. In addition to an archeological survey, a paleontological reconnaissance was requested. These investigations were to be implemented in conjunction with a National Park Service assessment of potential impacts...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David D. Kuehn.

Preliminary geoarcheological investigations were conducted in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, in August of 1997. The purpose of the research was to establish an initial stratigraphic and geomorphic context for archeological materials within the park. This was accomplished by large-scale surface reconnaissance and intensive data collection at a number of representative study sections. The reconnaissance focused on identifying major geomorphic landsurfaces extant in the park area. These...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert J. Salzer.

Archaeological research was conducted in the Apostle Islands and on the extreme northern tip of the mainland Bayfield Peninsula during a fourteen-week period in the Fall of 1979 by students and staff of the Department of Anthropology of Beloit College. The research was coordinated around the structure of an archaeological field school which was under the direction of Robert J. Salzer, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Logan Museum of Anthropology. Site survey techniques...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ray H. Mattison.

The purpose in this study is to determine if presumed lands contain the site of Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch buildings and, if so, authenticate it by historical evidence. In this study, the historian has been compelled to proceed with little tangible evidence as to the exact location of the Elkhorn Ranch buildings. Had Roosevelt owned the land on which his ranches were located, it would have been possible to determine the general location through the county records. Unfortunately, he did not. Very...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1965. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1966. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, River Basin Project.

This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1967. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This document contains the first two quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1968. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce Bevan.

A geophysical survey was conducted at the King Williams Narrows Campground in 1987. Three stone circles were visible at the surface during that survey, and there was a radar echo from an object below one of these circles. Since the time of that survey, three additional stone circles have been mapped at the site, and this report is a second look at the geophysical data from those locations. There are no distinctive geophysical patterns at any of the three additional stone circles. Since these...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Wheeler.

This is a reprint from “Progress, Missouri River Basin,” a Quarterly Report of the Interior Missouri Basin Field Committee, October-December, 1955. This document reports on archeological projects carried out during the summer of 1955. Three field units of the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys and four field parties sponsored by State institutions, in cooperation with the National Park Service, carried out archeological projects in two dam and reservoir...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Russel M. McKown.

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,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Howard W. Baker.

The authority for this study is contained in the Park, Parkway and Recreation Area Study Act of June 1936. The request for assistance in developing a long range park program for the county came from the President of the Scott County Conservation Board by letter of June 26, 1957. The report covers preliminary findings on the park and recreation potentialities of Scott County, and is in response to the request from the Scott County Conservation Board that Interior Missouri Basin Field Committee...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Smith.

The recent acceleration of the water development and conservation program for the Missouri Basin has produced a crisis for the archeologists concerned with the area. The more permanent villages of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Plains were overwhelmingly concentrated in the valleys of the major rivers. The remains of literally thousands of such villages will be unintentional casualties of the water resources development program. This is the story of what archeologists are doing toward meeting...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa Baier. Amanda Davey. Anne M. Wolley Vawser.

In 2009, the Buffalo National River requested the services of the Midwest Archeological Center to relocate and evaluate 26 abandoned wells in the park. The wells present a safety hazard for park visitors and wildlife and the park plans to mitigate the hazard by sealing or otherwise eliminating the wells. The crew was able to relocate and document 23 wells, some of which were not on the original list of 26. Each well was documented by recording the location with Global Positioning System (GPS)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce P. Bessken. Jay Shuler.

Fieldwork was carried out to inventory four areas that will be disturbed by replacement of pit toilets with vault toilets. Investigators looked for surface evidence of cultural materials that may indicate the presence of significant cultural resources, the need for additional exploration, or a change of project site location prior to disturbance of the area from the installation of new vault toilets. Each vault installation will require excavation of a hole approximately four feet deep by five...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bret Ruby.

In August 1997, the National Park Service proposed actions necessary to maintain the designed historic landscape at George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana. The proposed work involved the removal and replacement in kind of existing overgrown vegetation within a 70 m by 20 m tract along the northeast boundary of the park. Because this work involved minor ground disturbance, the National Park Service first conducted an archeological recom1aissance to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patrick E. Martin.

An archaeological examination was undertaken of several proposed construction/maintenance projects within Isle Royale National Park. The field examinations were conducted during the period May 15 to May 19, in cooperation with National Park staff, with logistical arrangements handled by Park Naturalist Bruce Weber and Maintenance Supervisor Bo Bohannon. This report will describe the methods and results of the fieldwork, will discuss the significance of the findings, and will make some specific...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christy L. Wells. Joyce A. Williams.

In February 1984, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville was authorized by the Bi-State Development Agency and the National Park Service to conduct archaeological monitoring of the" excavation for a multi-tier parking facility to be constructed at the north end of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Historic Site. The Investigations were undertaken for the purpose of identifying and preserving any significant archaeological resources relating to the theme of western expansion and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

During late September, 1989, and again in mid-October, personnel from the Midwest Archeological Center conducted archeological investigations at Grand Portage National Monument. Those efforts were precipitated by the planned installation of a new drainage system within the reconstructed fur trade Depot. That drain would function to remove ground water from two replicated structures inside the Depot, namely, the Kitchen and the Great Hall. Prior to installation of the drain, seven test units...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price was requested to monitor of an areas to be impacted by the installation of fee area signs at Two Rivers, Shawnee Creek, Bay Creek, and Rymers in Ozark National Scenic Riverways. These four campgrounds have been recently designated as fee areas and signs were placed at both locations. The project consisted of digging two holes for each sign. Locations of the signs are exhibited in Figures 1-8 of this report. This work was done 011 September 24, 2003 and was coordinated Brad Conway...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price to conduct a Phase I cultural resources assessment of the direct impact zone for the proposed installation of buried power and water lines at Pulltite on the Current River, Shannon County. The installation is proposed to take place in the north-central part of the Pulltite Developed Area. On October 17,2001 James E. Price, Ozark National Scenic Riverways Archeologist, and Renata Culpepper, Archeological Technician, visited the locus of the proposed undertaking. Accompanying him...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price was instructed to conduct a Phase I cultural resources assessment of the direct impact zone for the proposed installation of a new restroom/shower structure, a wastewater force main, and a wastewater leach field at Pulltite on the Current River, Shannon County. The installation is proposed to take place in the west-central part of the Pulltite Developed Area. On March 8, 2000 James E. Price, Ozark National Scenic Riverways Archeologist and Renata Coleman, Archeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price was requested to conduct a Phase I cultural resources assessment of an area to be impacted by buried utility lines to be connected to a new temporary fire cache structure to hold temporary offices near in the present Fire Cache Area off Peavine Road near between Van Buren and Big Spring. The new temporary facility will be situated east of the boat shed and northwest of the duplex staff residential housing (Figure I). Various utility lines will need to be installed in the area...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price, OZAR Archeologist, was requested to assess the potential impact on cultural resources of the construction of a pedestrian trail at Devil's Well by Martha Ruhe who was in charge of establishing a route for the trail from Devil's Well southward down Parker Hollow across Pioneer Forest land which is under private ownership. The project involves construction of a trail originating on the north side of Devil's Well and progressing in an arch westward, then southward around the ravine...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price was instructed by Kevin McMurry to conduct a Phase I cultural resources assessment of a tract of consisting of the presently fenced area at the Round Spring wastewater treatment plant. On April 26, 2000 James E. Price, Ozark National Scenic Riverways Archeologist, visited the wastewater treatment plant at Round Spring. Accompanying him were Kevin McMurry and Randy Ross. The portion of tile mound on which the treatment plant lies has subsided, causing one end of the building to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price was instructed by Kevin McMurry to conduct a Phase I cultural resources assessment of a tract of land north of Round Spring off Highway 19 where modification of a wastewater treatment plant 8lld spray fields is planned. On April 26, 2000 James E. Price, Ozark National Scenic Riverways Archeologist, visited the wastewater treatment plant and associated spray fields at Round Spring. Accompanying him were Kevin McMurry and Randy Ross. A portion of the mound on which tile treatment...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price was requested by Noel Orchard to conduct a Phase I cultural resources assessment of the area to be impacted by the replacement of wires connecting the electronic security system at Shawnee Shop in Shannon County, Missouri. The areas to be impacted were examined on April 26, 2000 by James E. Price, OZAR Archeologist. Noel Orchard explained that Angela Smith and Renata Coleman had previously examined the area when the wires presently serving the security system were installed below...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price was requested to conduct an emergency monitoring project of an area to be impacted by a backhoe excavation to be conducted near the in the Big Spring Historic CCC Complex near Building 411. On the morning of July 20, 2003, Billy Smith of ONSR Maintenance informed James E. Price, OZAR Archeologist, that there was a sewer line clog in the area and that it was necessary to use a backhoe to dig up the area at the point where the stoppage was suspected to be. The ground was loose and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

During a thunderstorm on Thursday, July 26, 2001, a major lightning strike hit near Big Spring causing a major power outage to the maintenance buildings and other structures to the south of the Big Spring discharge branch. All major lines were replaced following that event but recently the buried cable that serves Building 420 failed and must be replaced. James E. Price was instructed to provide Section 106 Clearance for the project and fieldwork ensued which is reported herein. The Big...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

During a thunderstorm on Thursday, July 26, 2001, a major lightning strike hit near Big Spring causing a major power outage to the maintenance buildings and other structures to the south of the Big Spring discharge branch. Although that line was replaced, it must have broken or damaged the ancillary power cable that supplies power to the Big Spring Pavilion. The Big Spring Developed Area is listed on The National Register of Historic Places as a district including all the structures constructed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price was requested to conduct a Phase I cultural resources assessment of the area to be impacted by a planned horse trail staging area to be constructed at the Broadfoot Tract northeast of Eminence, Missouri within Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Shannon County. The project area is located between the Current River to the north and the Jacks Fork to the south. On May 16, 2001, James E. Price, OZAR Archeologist, assisted by Renata Coleman, Archeological Technician, visited the project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price was requested to conduct a Phase I cultural resources assessment of the area to be impacted by a planned horse trail staging area to be constructed between Big Shawnee and Little Shawnee Creeks near Shawnee Shop in Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Shannon County. The project area is located east of Eminence, Missouri north of Highway 106, On April 12, 2001, James E. Price, OZAR Archeologist, assisted by Renata Coleman, Archeological Technician, visited the project area and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Price.

James E. Price was requested to conduct a Phase I cultural resources assessment of the area to be impacted by a prescribed burn, designated as The East Thorny Burn. On March 28, 2002, James E. Price, OZAR Archeologist and Renata Culpepper, Archeological Technician, visited the project and conducted a pedestrian survey of the project, paying particular attention to those areas where there was a probability of being the location of prehistoric or historic archeological sites. Price also examined...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

For three weeks during the summer of 1991, an archeological team investigated the abandoned estate of White Haven, family home of Julia Dent Grant, which now is referred to as Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site since coming into the National Park System in 1990. Those excavations served two major purposes: (1) to provide information on the structural evolution of White Haven for preparation of a Historic Structures Report on the property; and (2) to examine two large open grassy parcels...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karin M. Roberts. James E. Price.

From June 30 through July 25, 1997, subsurface archeological investigations were conducted at four areas of Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, historically known as White Haven, in St. Louis, Missouri (Figure 1). Ground-disturbing activities were planned as part of the restoration and maintenance of the historic property and such investigations were necessary to mitigate any adverse impacts to significant buried archeological deposits within the project area. This project, the fifth...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew D. Busch.

The FY 2010 Restoration Project is the first year of a four‐year project directed towards restoring the historic area within Jewel Cave to a more natural condition through the removal of foreign debris and materials. Although this area of the cave had been subject to smaller efforts of intermittent restoration work, this project is the first of its kind in regards to systematic restoration efforts. Work within this section of the cave took place between June 1 and October 1 of FY 2010. Efforts...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

This report summarizes the methods and results, as well as the initiating purpose, of archeological excavations carried out at the Julia Sprigg House in the summers of 1992 and 1993. That structure was one of several extant historic buildings within Lincoln Home National Historic Site scheduled for restoration. Limited testing confirmed the presence of intact cultural remains at the rear of the lot, but could not confirm the survival of evidence relating to certain historic elements of the main...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Albert M. LeBeau III. Ashley Barnett. Curtis H. Sedlacek.

The City of Rocks National Reserve is a location with ties to America’s emigrant past. The primary significance at the Reserve is the California Trail and associated features. The National Park Service’s National Trails Intermountain Region requested the National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center assist the City of Rocks National Reserve in geophysical survey and historic names research projects. The projects utilized geophysical prospection techniques to answer questions posed by the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text River Basin Surveys, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

This report was prepared for the "Ad Hoc Advisory Committee" that reviewed the River Basin Surveys program of the Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in 1968. The report includes background information about the program and suggests additional activities that the program might undertake in the future. The River Basin Surveys was organized within the Smithsonian Institution in the fall of 1945 as a unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Its purpose was to carry out...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ralph J. Hartley. Anne Wolley Vawser.

The Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS) has undergone extensive inventory over the last two decades. Although several thousand Native American sites have been recorded within the PCMS boundaries there are 662 that can be used for this analysis. In these cases, the observations were recorded in a consistent fashion. This limited database contains both nominal and categorical variables or fields. Within this data set there are 171 sites that possess observations with at least one of the following...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert W. Neuman.

This report concerns the 1953 investigations conducted by a field party of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, at the Farm School Site (39BF220), which is situated on an extensive floodplain along the left side of the Missouri River in Buffalo County, South Dakota. The site was first recognized in 1956 by a survey team of the Missouri Basin Project under the direction of Harold A. Huscher. The 1958 investigations, from July 7 to July 11, were supervised by Robert W. Neuman;...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Clyde D. Dollar.

This report details the cultural and construction history of military Fort Smith built in 1840 at the confluence of the Arkansas and Potaeu Rivers in the state of Arkansas. Historic background on the fort, its officer quarters, cistern, and the use of the site for Coca-Cola production in 1903. Maps, photographs, and recommendations for demolition are included in the report.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott.

A team from the National Park Service's Midwest Archeological Center (MW AC) carried out backhoe and hand test excavations behind the Summer Kitchen (HS2) at Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site (ULSG) in an effort to locate archeological evidence of fence lines and the site of a small building believed to be a privy. The archeological investigations were undertaken to gather data to support the reconstruction of the historic fenceline and avoid, to the extent possible, the effect of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roger T. Saucier.

This writer initiated this investigation of the geomorphology and landscape evolution in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways (ONSR) in 1981 as part of the cultural resources investigation contracted by the National Park Service (NPS) to the Southwest Missouri State University. He has visited the region four times, once for a familiarization reconnaissance in the fall of 1980, once in the summer of 1981 for data collection from area agencies, universities and organizations, and twice in 1982 for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Page Wheeler.

In this document, Richard Wheeler discusses ten projectile point types, and one pseudo-type, that were not addressed by Robert E. Bell and Roland Scott Hall in their description and illustration of forty-five projectile point types of the United States, published in 1953. Two types, Duncan and Hanna, recorded in Wheeler’s document were recently named and defined by Wheeler. Another, designated Agate Basin, will be described on the basis of specimens made available by Dr. Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr....

DOCUMENT Full-Text River Basin Survey, Smithsonian Institution.

The Alsada dam and reservoir, a Bureau of Reclamation project on the Little Missouri River in Crook County, is authorized for construction in the near future. It will be a small reservoir, inundating 5,500 acres of the bottom land in this area. A field, party of the Smithsonian Institution surveyed, this area in August 1951 and presented the archeological potentialities of the reservoir in a previous report. The present site analysis is based on this report and the sites’ files in the Missouri...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

In 2005, SITK invited the National Park Service’s (NPS) Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) to conduct a Systemwide Archeological Inventory Program (SAIP) parkwide inventory at the park’s Fort Site Unit. This unit incorporates 57 acres of rainforest and nearly 55 acres of wetlands, Indian River channel, and tidal flats. The SAIP’s (and the SITK project’s) goals are to conduct systematic, scientific research to locate, evaluate, and document archeological resources on National Park system lands....

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This report is a brief summary of work conducted at Ozark horse camp on Saturday, May 19, 1984. A survey was conducted to establish whether or not the proposed area at the horse camp for a vault toilet would be stable and a nonthreatening to the cultural resources at this site. A hand drawn map of the vault toilet testing location is included in this report.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scruggs and Hammond, Inc.. The Westerly Group, Inc..

This report describes the results of a supplemental physical investigation of the extant portions of the north retaining wall at the William Howard Taft National Historic Site. The purpose of the investigation has been to determine, if possible, the extent and condition of remaining historic fabric. The investigation has attempted to enlarge upon the excellent and important work of Mark A. Chavez. In addition, the investigation has also attempted to evaluate the structural stability of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

This document is a report on the Dickinson Dam and Reservoir, an irrigation, flood control and municipal water supply project of the Bureau of Reclamation that took place during the late 1940s. The concluding recommendations state that no further work is needed for the Dickinson reservoir.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

This document is a report/appraisal of the archaeological resources of Shadehill Dam and Reservoir. The area underwent an irrigated, flood control and water supply project by the Bureau of Reclamation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott.

The flag and flagpole at Fort Union were important visual symbols to the inhabitants and visitors to the Upper Missouri region as is clearly evidenced by Edwin Denig's quote. The flag and the pole it flew upon were visible reminders of a place of safety and rest for the person approaching the fort from land or water. The flag and pole were a part of the every day scene at Fort Union and yet they served a more important, although less tangible role as a visual symbol of American control of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text W. W. Caldwell.

For the past several years the Smithsonian Institution has been concerned with the problem of dating cultural developments and climatic events along the main stem of the Missouri River (see Progress. Missouri River Basin, Oct.-Dec., 1959, pp.42-60). One of the most profitable approaches has been through dendrochronology, the charting and comparison of annual growth rings of trees. The study of dendrochronology is not new in the Plains. The work of Harry Weakly in central and western Nebraska,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John W. Weymouth.

As part of a geophysical survey of an Arkansas Post site near lake Dumond with a crew from the Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service, three 20 m by 20 m blocks were surveyed on the last day in the Village area of the Arkansas Post National Memorial. The surveys were done during the afternoon of April 23, 1998.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

Expounding on new names, definitions, and categorizations of two point types found in the Keyhole Reservoir, Richard P. Wheeler compares the newly identified Duncan and Hanna Points to McKean Points found in similar contexts within three occupation sites in Northeastern Wyoming.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott.

The park plans to upgrade its telephone and alarm system. Trenching along the palisade was required to lay the new utility lines. Archeological monitoring was required since portions of this area were believed not to have been disturbed by previous excavation activity associated with the fort reconstruction work from 1986-1989.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Dominguez. Anne Wolley Vawser.

Planned development around the Wahweap area of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will involve constlllction of a variety of structures, roads, and utility corridors. Areas which may be impacted were inventoried by pedestrian survey covering an area of 475 acres. Four previously identified sites were relocated. Two of these were redefined as one site. Fifteen new sites and 16 isolated finds were identified. Testing on six of the sites disclosed no significant subsurface deposits. The crew...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa A. Connor.

During the August, 1991, metal detector inventory of Big Hole National Battlefield, a partial human skeleton was uncovered. The remains are those of an unidentified girl in her late teens. The skeleton was on top of a camas oven, which is consistent with historical accounts of the disposal of some of the bodies from the battle. The body showed evidence of extensive post-mortem mutilation. The arms had been cut off and laid below the pelvis, one leg had been detached and was not with the remains,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles Ross McCollough.

This report focuses on the historic background of the William Howard Taft National Historic Site. Written by Major Charles Ross McCollough, the report covers the historic grounds of the site both past and present, including photographs and maps.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah K. Bauxar.

Architects Anthony Crosby and Donald E. Hovland, Sr. of the Division of Historic Preservation, Denver Service Center, are currently in the process of developing a structural analysis for a Historic Structure report of the William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Cincinnati, Ohio. September 2-18, 1975 they visited the home in order to study the original structural system and state of repair. Of primary concern this trip was the extent and condition of the 1851 east addition foundation. In...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Theil.

Fort Union served as the major trading establishment for the American Fur Company and its St. Louis descendants (Bernard Pratte and Co. and Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Co.) on the Upper Missouri River between 1828 and 1865. In 1865, Charles Chouteau sold Fort Union to Hubble, Hawley and Smith, otherwise known as the North Western Fur Company. During its last years of existence, between 1864 and 1866, the treaders shared the post's facilities with the U.S. Army, the latter utilizing Fort Union as a...