The story is told of the anthropologist, studying origin traditions, whose informant stated that the world stands on the back of a giant turtle. He asked what the turtle stood on and learned that it stands on the back of Read More …
Frontier County
Medicine Creek Is a Paleoindian Cultural Ecotone: The Red Smoke Assemblage
The southwestern Nebraska Paleoindian Red Smoke site (25FT42) is in the upper reaches of a gallery-forested river that flows east to the Mississippi, in a sheltered, well-watered niche abundant in deer, small game, vegetable foods, and local high-quality tabular stone Read More …
Nebraska State Historical Society and River Basin Surveys Research at Medicine Creek Lake, 1946–1948
Medicine Creek Reservoir was completed in 1949. It was built primarily to control destructive both on Medicine Creek and in the Republican River drainage, and also as part of the Irrigation Project, administered by the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). Although Read More …