MWAC, Missouri Basin Reports, Non-Sensitive

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Frank H. Roberts, Jr..

The Badwater Reservoir is a project of the Bureau of Reclamation. An archeological reconnaissance of the Badwater Reservoir area was undertaken by the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, in July 1951. The field party consisted of Franklin Fenenga, archeologist and J. Mett Shippee, field assistant. Dr. Theodore E. White, geologist for the Missouri Basin Project, completed a paleontological reconnaissance of the area in the summer of 1947 and the results have been printed....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Franklin Fenenga. Frank H. Roberts, Jr..

This resource is an archeological reconnaissance of the Red Gulch Reservoir area completed by the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, in June 1951. The field party consisted of Franklin Fenenga, archeologist, and Frederick H. West, assistant. A paleontological reconnaissance of the same region was undertaken by Dr. Theodore E. White of the Missouri Valley Project in the summer of 1947, and the results have been printed. Investigations consisted of field exploration and local...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

This report documents preliminary investigations of the archaeological resources of the Fondulac and Farmdale Reservoirs made by the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, between March 21 and 25, 1949. The District Engineer's Office, Corps of Engineers, at Chicago, Illinois, furnished maps to facilitate the work and some time was spent in consultation with local residents. The surveys were made in order to discover any archeological remains in the areas to be flooded by the dams and to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. D. Daugherty. F. A. Riddell.

This survey was made by the Columbia Basin Project of the River Basin Surveys under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution in accordance with the “Memorandum of Understanding” between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945. Hungry Horse Reservoir is a project of the Bureau of Reclamation, and is located on the South Fork of the Flathead River, in Flathead County, Montana. The survey was made to determine the frequency of archeological sites...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

The investigation of the archeological resources of the Orwell Reservoir was made by the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, in October1948. The District Engineer's Office, Corps of Engineers, at St. Paul, provided maps to facilitate the work, and local residents were consulted. The purpose of the survey was to discover the extent of any archeological remains in the area to be flooded by the dam and to determine whether there are sites of major importance in this area that should be...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Theodore E. White.

This report has been prepared for the River Basin Recreation Survey, Region Two Office, National Park Service, in accordance with a “Memorandum of Understanding” between the Smithsonian Institution and the National Park Service, approved October 9, 1945. The report is an appraisal of the paleontological resources of nine reservoir areas in five sub-basins in the Missouri River Basin drainage area. The nine reservoirs were prospected for paleontological materials at various times during the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Garth.

From July 19 to November 3 in 1930 a survey and excavation program was carried on to locate and if possible determine the physical appearance of historic sites which will shortly be flooded in the Fort Randall Reservoir area. An important feature of the program was to photograph the ruins and gather representative artifacts from each, to be placed in museums to help portray the site’s history. The work was carried on for the National Park Service by the Smithsonian Institution as part of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text G. Hubert Smith.

This publication is a mission statement and brief survey of the Missouri Basin area and its archaeological opportunities. The document encourages the excavation of the Missouri Basin in order to expand the initial information available for the restricted reservoir areas. The document is accompanied by photographs of related sites and artifacts.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Warren W. Caldwell.

This document is a public statement and explanation for the archaeology conducted in the Missouri Basin during the 1950s. The document states: Despite the manifold accomplishments of archeology in the Missouri Basin, the whys, the origin and the complexities of aboriginal life are still obscure. Much remains to be done. The rising waters threaten far more than is now in hand. The Missouri Basin archeologist looks upon the situation as a race, and a critical one. It is not a race to secure...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul L. Cooper.

When the Congress of the United States authorized the Missouri River Basin Project, the foundation was laid for one of the largest archeological research programs in history. The authorization brought into being a plan to build some 105 dams and reservoirs on the main stem of the Missouri River and its tributaries in an area which had been the first, and is the present, home of the Plains Indians. The area abounds in village sites, tipi rings, campsites, slaughter pits, and other evidences of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text W. W. Caldwell.

From the time of first contact by European and American travelers, the fortified villages of the sedentary, horticultural Indians who lived along the Missouri River in what today are the States of North and South Dakota have been a matter for speculation and comment— and with good reason. Many of the defensive features have close counterparts in the fortified villages and castles of the mote and bailey type of western Europe. This is not to imply that there was any direct relationship but the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Oscar L. Mallory.

In earlier issues of Progress the gains in knowledge of the village dwellers of the Missouri River have been discussed and described. For this report attention will be directed to the earlier, technologically less sophisticated, hunter and gatherers who inhabited the Plains from about 2,000-7,000 years ago. This document contains a brief overview of those who inhabited the Plains and calls for a full investigation of the mountain refuge hypothesis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. L. Stephenson.

Archeological investigations have been in progress in the Missouri Basin for over half a century. These investigations have consisted of the locating, excavating and interpreting of the fragmentary evidence of human occupation in the Great Plains during the past 10,000 years. Such evidence includes the remains of prehistoric Indian villages, camps, burial grounds, quarries, pictographs and hunting spots. It also includes remnants of historic White military and trading posts. Relics of this long...

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 John J. Hoffman. W. W. Caldwell. R. B. Johnson. G. H. Smith.

The Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program was organized to preserve and interpret the paleontological, archeological, and historic remains scheduled for destruction by federal water control and hydroelectric projects. The program is ad­ ministered by the U. S. National Park Service with the advice and active participation of the Smithsonian Institution. Federal funds provide support for much of the work, but state, local, and even private monies have been utilized. The excavation and...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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,...