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Missouri Basin. — Activities in the Missouri Basin continued to be 

 supervised and directed from the field headquarters at the University 

 of Nebraska in Lincoln. Paul L. Cooper served as acting field di- 

 rector from July 1 until October 3, when he was made field director 

 for the Missouri Basin program. The operations in the Missouri 

 Basin shifted in character during the course of the year. Where 

 previously most of the activities had been concerned with preliminary 

 surveys, a larger number of excavating parties were sent into the field 

 and greater emphasis was placed on the actual salvage of materials 

 from sites that eventually will be inundated. 



From July 3 to November 21 a two-man archeological survey party 

 headed by Kobert L. Shalkop made preliminary reconnaissance of the 

 Apex, Brenner, Clark Canyon, Gibson, Kelley, Landon, Nilan, and 

 Wilson Reservoirs in Montana ; the Middle Fork and South Fork proj- 

 ects in Wyoming; and the Narrows in Colorado. The party also re- 

 visited the Keyhole Reservoir area in Wyoming and the Moorhead 

 and Yellowtail projects whose basins occur in both Montana and Wyo- 

 ming. The Shalkop party located and recorded 127 new sites. From 

 August 12 to November 3 a two-man party led by George Metcalf in- 

 vestigated the area of the Fort Berthold Reservation in the Fort Gar- 

 rison area in North Dakota, locating and recording 55 new sites. Dur- 

 ing October a two-man reconnaissance party under Richard Page 

 Wlieeler visited 10 potential reservoirs in the Niobrara subbasin in 

 Nebraska. The party found a total of 41 archeological sites. Robert 

 B. Cumming, Jr., and an assistant carried out a reconnaissance of the 

 Ashton Reservoir area in the Lower Platte basin in Nebraska from 

 November 7 to 15 and at the same time examined the sites of the Sar- 

 gent, Woods Park, and Ashton Feeder canals. Since only one archeo- 

 logical site was found by Cumming's party, the area does not ap- 

 pear to have had much aboriginal occupation. This party also inves- 

 tigated an ossuary that had been uncovered at the Cushing dam site. 

 During the period June 5 to 9, Franklin Fenenga and an assistant sur- 

 veyed the Lovewell Reservoir area on White Rock Creek in northern 

 Kansas and recorded six archeological sites. On June 19 Fenenga 

 and an assistant proceeded to Wyoming and by the end of the fiscal 

 year had made surveys at the Bull Creek, Smith, Buffalo Bill, Tri- 

 angle Park, Willow Park, and Red Gulch Reservoirs. Five sites were 

 found in the Bull Creek Reservoir and one large workshop area, which 

 may be relatively old, was discovered in the Red Gulch Reservoir. 

 None of the other projects visited contained archeological 

 manifestations. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year a party under the direction of 

 Richard Page Wheeler was excavating at the Long site in the Angos- 

 tura Reservoir basin on the Cheyenne River in South Dakota. That 



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