NO. 2 MISSOURI VALLEY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM — WEDEL 7 



Reservoir areas in the Smoky Hill River Basin, in Kansas. The other 

 includes Enders, Harlan County, Medicine Creek, and Wray Reser- 

 voir areas in the Republican River Basin, in Nebraska and Colorado. 

 Also in progress and nearing completion was a report summarizing 

 paleontological survey data on 14 river basins containing a total of 

 68 reservoir areas. 



Supplementary appraisals based on further archeological field 

 surveys during the summer of 1947 were being prepared for Boysen, 

 Canyon Ferry, Glendo, Oregon Basin, and Tiber. First drafts of 

 technical reports were under way or completed for Anchor, Boysen, 

 Devils Lake, Enders, Glendo, Jamestown, Kortes, Medicine Creek, 

 Oregon Basin, Sheyenne, Harlan County, and Kanopolis. Since these 

 are based on preliminary reconnaissance which, in some cases at least, 

 will be followed up by intensive survey and excavation, their publica- 

 tion at this time or in the foreseeable future is not contemplated. 



FIELD WORK AND EXPLORATIONS 

 KANSAS AND COLORADO 



In northern and northwestern Kansas and northeastern Colorado, 

 four proposed Bureau of Reclamation reservoir projects were sur- 

 veyed for archeological remains by a River Basin Surveys party. The 

 party consisted of Wesley L. BHss and J. J. Bauxar, who were in the 

 field on this assignment from April 24 to May 7. Projects visited 

 included Wilson Reservoir, in the Smoky Hill Basin in north-central 

 Kansas ; Norton and Pioneer Reservoirs, in the Republican Basin in 

 northern Kansas; and Bonny Reservoir, in the same basin in north- 

 eastern Colorado, The investigations were all of preliminary char- 

 acter, and in no case was complete coverage of the proposed pool area 

 possible. Further and more intensive surveys are recommended if 

 and when reservoir construction is undertaken. 



Wilson Reservoir. — -This area is located on the Saline River, in 

 Russell County, Kans., with the dam site near the eastern edge of 

 the county. Since the future pool area will be some 25 or 30 miles 

 long, the i^ days allotted to reconnaissance obviously permitted spot 

 checking of only a very small portion. The six sites recorded thus 

 represent but a fraction of the total to be expected when intensive 

 survey is made. 



Of the six sites recorded, three represent pictograph localities. At 

 one, in addition to carvings of Indian origin, were found the names 

 of William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody and Wild Bill Hickok. The 

 authenticity of these remains to be determined. Two other sites were 



