"My Name Was Made High:" A Crow War Record at 48HO9

Summary

Until quite recently the Bighorn Basin has not been known for its Biographic rock art imagery. In fact, in their excellent overview of the region, Francis and Loendorf (2002:179-183) note only two sites in the Bighorn Basin proper—Military Creek and Mahogany Buttes—that contain horses and riders, and both of those are in the Bighorn Mountain foothills on the basin’s extreme eastern edge.1 They also note (Francis and Loendorf 2002:181) that “illustrations of Historic period weaponry are less common than those of horses.” In the last few years, however, intensive effort on the part of Mike Bies, Bureau of Land Management Worland field office archaeologist, to document Biographic imagery has produced several significant new discoveries of classic Northwestern Plains Biographic Tradition rock art (e.g., Bies and Walker 2009; Francis 2007:221- 224; Greer and Greer 2009; Keyser and Poetschat 2009). Recording work at 48HO9 in June of 2011 adds another important image to this growing list.

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• Wyoming Archaeologist 2010

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