The Crimson Cowboys : the remarkable odyssey of the 1931 Claflin-Emerson Expedition /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Spangler, Jerry D., author.
Imprint:	Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 288 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Claflin-Emerson Expedition -- (1927-1931) Archaeological surveying -- Utah. Fremont culture -- Utah. Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Utah -- Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Utah. Antiquities. Archaeological surveying. Excavations (Archaeology) Fremont culture. Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities. Utah -- Antiquities. Utah. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12283121

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Other authors / contributors:	Aton, James M., 1949- author.
ISBN:	9781607816508 1607816504 9781607816492 1607816490
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 01, 2019).
Summary:	"In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that had never been attempted in the history of American archaeology: a six-week, four-hundred-mile horseback survey of Fremont prehistoric sites through some of the West's most rugged terrain. The expedition was successful, but a report on the findings was never completed. What should have been one of the great archaeological stories in American history was relegated to boxes and files in the basement of the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Now, based on over a thousand pages of documents (field journals, correspondence, and receipts) and over four hundred photographs, this book recounts the remarkable day-to-day adventures of this crew of one professor, five students, and three Utah guides who braved heat, fatigue, and the dangerous canyon wilderness to reveal vestiges of the Fremont culture in the Tavaputs Plateau and Uinta Basin areas. To better tell this story, authors Spangler and Aton undertook extensive fieldwork to confirm the sites; their recent photographs and those of the original expedition are shared on these pages. This engaging narrative situates the 1931 survey and its discoveries within the history of American archaeology"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Spangler, Jerry D. Crimson Cowboys. [Salt Lake City, Utah] : University of Utah Press, [2018] 9781607816492

Table of Contents:

An elephantine endeavor : preparations for the 1931 field season
The adventure begins : probing the East Tavaputs Plateau
Divide and conquer : the exploration of Willow Creek
Castles in the sky : the Hill Creek excavations
Into the thick of it : Nine Mile Canyon
Unnoticed treasures : the expedition to Range Creek Canyon
Wildest desolation : exploring the Green River's west bank
Dirty shovels : Devil's Playground and Rasmussen Cave
Out with a whimper : the Uinta Basin investigations
Scholars and cowboys : afterwards.

The Crimson Cowboys : the remarkable odyssey of the 1931 Claflin-Emerson Expedition /

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