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Cooperating institutions active in the Missouri Basin at the begin- 

 ning of the fiscal year included six field parties representing five State 

 agencies in Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Montana. Dr. Dee C. 

 Taylor with a crew from Montana State University conducted a survey 

 of portions of the shoreline of the Fort Peck Reservoir in east-central 

 Montana, locating archeological sites that have been exposed by bank 

 erosion along the shores of the reservoir. Marvin F. Kivett, assisted 

 by Dr. Roger T. Grange with a crew from the Nebraska State Histori- 

 cal Society, completed salvage excavations in the area of the Red Wil- 

 low Reservoir in southwestern Nebraska. Dr. Preston Holder, as- 

 sisted by Dr. Emily Blasingham and a crew of University of Nebraska 

 students, completed excavation and testing of sites to be flooded in the 

 Norton Reservoir area of northwestern Kansas. Dr. Carlyle S. Smith, 

 assisted by Walter Birkby and a crew of students from the University 

 of Kansas, excavated two sites, sampled several others, and completed 

 salvage work in the Melvern Reservoir area of east-central Kansas. 

 Dr. Carl Chapman and a crew from the University of Missouri con- 

 tinued the surveying and testing of sites in the Kaysinger Bluff Res- 

 ervoir area in west-central Missouri. A second crew tested a large 

 series of sites in the Stockton Reservoir area of central Missouri. All 

 these parties operated under agreements with the National Park Serv- 

 ice and in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution in the Inter- 

 Agency Archeological Salvage Program. 



The 1963 field season began with an archeological survey team imder 

 Lionel A. Brown, assisted by Lee G. Madison and Stephen H. 

 Schwartz. This team began operations on May 6 and completed its 

 work on May 29. It investigated the proposed area of the Almena 

 Reservoir on Prairie Dog Creek, in northwestern Kansas, fuiding no 

 archeological sites but recording one paleontological locality. The 

 members of the party next went to the proposed area of the Herndon 

 Reservoir on Beaver Creek in Rawlins Comity, Kans., where they 

 recorded one archeological site. In Ellis County, Kans., on Big Creek, 

 the proposed Ellis Reservoir was surveyed and two sites were recorded. 

 The proposed area of the Fort Scott Reservoir in Bourbon County, 

 Kans., was next surveyed and six sites were located. The next survey, 

 made in Anderson County, Kans., found seven sites at the location of 

 the proposed Garnett Reservoir. The final reservoir of the six sur- 

 veyed was the Angus Reservoir in Nuckols County, Nebr., where two 

 archeological sites were recorded. A total of 18 archeological sites and 

 1 paleontological locality were recorded in 6 reservoir areas. 



On May 13 and 14, G. Hubert Smith and Oscar L. Mallory con- 

 ducted a brief investigation of the site of the Fort Randall Military 

 Post, near the Fort Randall dam in southeastern South Dakota. 

 As an aid to the U.S. Corps of Engineers in developing this for public 



