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with the assistance of various new groups, such as that of the Com- 

 mittee on Historic Sites of the Mississippi Valley Historical Associ- 

 ation, a committee primarily of academic historians and representa- 

 tives of State liistorical societies, with various regional interests, which 

 has for some years served as advisors for the National Park Service 

 (Region Two), and with the counsel of the National Trust for His- 

 toric Preservation. 



With the inevitable progress of knowledge of the history of the 

 West, and the increasingly great time interval separating modern times 

 and the first permanent settlements, and with more concerted study of 

 and attention to historic and prehistoric resources of all kinds (a 

 nonrenewable stockpile), it is not difficult to foresee something ap- 

 proaching the planned work here suggested, crossing artificial State 

 lines and properly coordinated with other endeavors elsewhere, as well 

 as balanced Avith other spheres of interest than original "Wliite explo- 

 ration and settlement alone. Some little thought has already been 

 given to such planned efforts for areas of Colonial settlement in the 

 New World, and comparable endeavors in Western frontier areas will 

 in time be coordinated with them. At the nearer end of the time scale, 

 it can be said that almost nothing is as yet available from actual 

 archeological study of first permanent settlements in the West, those 

 succeeding to the major role once occupied by the commercial trading 

 post, or to the beginnings of modern industry itself. Any such ex- 

 tensions of knowledge of the past are bound to have genuine value, 

 when the work has been done ; it is, however, improbable that they will 

 be made without coordinated planning on the part of public and 

 private individuals and groups. 



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