NO. 2 SALVAGE PROGRAM, I95O-I95I — COOPER II 



mer a survey team ranged widely over the Missouri Basin inspecting 

 previously unvisited reservoir areas and occasionally returning to 

 selected areas for more intensive investigations. Figure i shows the 

 locations of all reservoirs investigated as of December 31, 195 1. In 

 1950, Robert L. Shalkop, accompanied most of the summer by 

 Gordon F. McKenzie and for a brief time by Willy Stahl, was in the 

 field from July 3 to November 22 reconnoitering reservoir sites in 

 the western Plains. He made the initial reconnaissance of Nilan, 

 Wilson, Landon, Apex, Kelley, Clark Canyon, and Brenner Reser- 

 voirs in Montana ; Narrows Reservoir in Colorado ; and Middle Fork 

 and South Fork Reservoirs in Wyoming. Additional reconnaissance 

 was accomplished at Keyhole Reservoir, Wyoming, previously sur- 

 veyed in 1948; at Yellowtail Reservoir, Montana and Wyoming, 

 where the most accessible areas were spot-checked in 1946; and at 

 Moorhead Reservoir, Montana and Wyoming, inspected in 1949. 

 The reconnaissance party in 1951 was led by Franklin Fenenga, who 

 was assisted at various times by Homer Aschman, Frederick Had- 

 leigh-West, J. M. Shippee, and W. Raymond Wood. This party 

 visited Lovewell Reservoir in Kansas; Alzada, Badwater, Buffalo 

 Bill, Bull Creek, Red Gulch, Smith, Triangle Park, and Willow Park 

 Reservoirs in Montana ; and Gavins Point Reservoir in Nebraska and 

 South Dakota. It also extended previous surveys in Yellowtail Reser- 

 voir, Montana and Wyoming, and Sheyenne Reservoir, North Dakota. 

 Additional survey was also accomplished each year in the reservoirs 

 in which excavation parties were operating. In the autumn of 1950 

 Richard P. Wheeler and J. M. Shippee surveyed 10 reservoirs in 

 the Niobrara Basin, Nebraska, and Robert B. Gumming, Jr., and 

 Shippee extended the survey of the Lower Platte Basin, Nebraska. 



Excavation units in 1950 were as follows : At Rock Village 

 (32ME15), Garrison Reservoir, under the supervision of G. Ellis 

 Burcaw, assisted by George Metcalf, who also led a survey team 

 during part of the field season; at the Dodd (39ST30) and Philip 

 Ranch (39ST14) sites, Oahe Reservoir, under the supervision of 

 Donald J. Lehmer, assisted by Donald D. Hartle ; at various historic 

 sites in the Fort Randall Reservoir area, under the supervision of 

 Thomas R. Garth, assisted by Harold McAllister ; at various sites in 

 the Angostura and Boysen Reservoirs, under the supervision of 

 Richard P. Wheeler, assisted by J. M. Shippee and briefly by George 

 Metcalf; and at various sites in the Tiber Reservoir, under the super- 

 vision of Walter D. Enger, Jr. 



In 1951, excavation units operated as follows: Fort Stevenson 

 (32ML1), Garrison Reservoir, Archeologist G. Hubert Smith, as- 



