VI FOREWORD 



able to those discussed for the other three reservoirs will need to be 

 solved. Wliile the specific situation has changed, the overall picture 

 is still as critical at this time as it was when the Mattes paper was 

 prepared. 



The excavation of sites was for the most part carried on by parties 

 from the Missouri Basin Project of the River Basin Surveys, and 

 four of the papers are by members of the River Basin Surveys staff. 

 During the course of the work Mr. Mattes and Mr. Mattison were 

 extremely helpful in assisting party leaders to locate their sites and 

 in interpreting the materials from them. The investigations in the 

 Fort Randall area were mainly conducted by John E. Mills. The 

 preliminary reconnaissance and testing of sites was, however, done 

 by Thomas R. Garth, and Dr. Mills has included the information 

 gathered by Garth in his paper, "Historic Sites Archeology in the 

 Fort Randall Reservoir, South Dakota." One of the Fort Randall 

 sites, however, was excavated by Carl F. Miller, and his report on the 

 Fort Lookout Trading Post II incorporates the notes made by Mr. 

 Garth when he did some digging there during the preceding field 

 season. 



As indicated above, no historic site digging has yet been done in 

 the Oahe Reservoir basin proper. The excavations by G. Hubert 

 Smith at Fort Pierre II were in an area some distance below the dam, 

 but were of a salvage nature in that the construction of the spillway 

 for the dam did involve the remains of that historic trading post. 

 The studies at Fort Pierre II as reported by Mr. Smith were the latest 

 in the series. 



In the Garrison Reservoir area Mr. Smith initiated the historic 

 sites excavations by his work at the site of Fort Stevenson. His de- 

 tailed account of the activities there constitutes Paper No. 19 of the 

 present volume. Since those investigations were the first exten- 

 sive ones in the historic sites program and his report was the 

 first comprehensive one of that nature to be completed, the Fort Ste- 

 venson paper perhaps should have followed immediately after Mr. 

 Mattes' article. However, it seemed better to group the papers by 

 reservoir area, proceeding northward along the river, rather than by 

 the chronological order of the excavations, and that is the reason for 

 the sequence as printed in this bulletin. The work at the small trad- 

 ing post that has been identified as Kipp's Post was done by Alan R, 

 Woolworth and W. Raymond Wood under an agreement between the 

 National Park Service and the State Historical Society of North Da- 

 kota. The site of the post had previously been located and identified 

 by G. Hubert Smith, but it was not possible for Mr. Smith to conduct 

 excavations there. Consequently the arrangements were made 

 whereby Mr. Woolworth and Mr. Wood carried on that work. Mr. 

 Smith and Mr. Woolworth previously cooperated in investigations at 



