Of particular importance to Wyoming is cultural heritage tourism which draws tourists to our public lands and state parks. Wyoming has at least 31 state parks and historic sites, two national parks, one national monument, one national grassland, and seven national forests. All of these include, and/or are located in proximity to, historic and/or prehistoric archaeological sites. The information that archaeological research uncovers about these sites helps enhance visitors’ experiences and promote tourism within the state. The residents of Wyoming are very interested in archaeology because it is ubiquitous across the State. Many different people lived here at many different times and public interest in these past cultures is high.
In September 2012, USUAS conducted a second year of investigations that again focused on the Island Area, but also expanded their investigations east of the river onto the Olson property. This year’s work was an expansion of the 2011 investigations Read More …
The University of Montana archeological team, under the direction of Associate Professor Douglas H. MacDonald, conducted a full inventory of archaeological resources at the Sheepeater Cliff site (48YE29) in 20092010. Yellowstone National Park (YNP) proposes road widening and parking lot Read More …
Trail identification is difficult and problematical. Physical evidence of trails is often limited and discontinuous. Trails are usually obscured by more recent human activity. Trail ruts, the most ubiquitous of trail features, are difficult to tell apart from ruts formed Read More …
This report presents the summary of work completed by the University of Montana in 2013 and 2014 along the Lewis and Snake Rivers of southern Yellowstone National Park. This project, known as the Snake and Lewis Survey (The Snake Headwaters Read More …
Names Hill is a series of vertical cliffs rising above the valley floor along the west bank of the Green River. U.S. Highway 189 runs between the Green River and Names Hill and closely parallels the cliffs. The most prominent Read More …
Stage stations were self-contained operations linked with other similar facilities via stage and freight lines that passed along the road system they served. Here we look at these self-sustaining stations in terms of their foodways and material cultural remains recovered Read More …
Beneath a little-traveled gravel road many miles east of Glendo State Park, a pioneer cemetery was discovered. Here, travelers from the Oregon Trail had buried their dead. Over a period of 31 years, three skeletons began to emerge from their Read More …
This dissertation addresses how Victorian class hierarchy persisted on the frontier, and manifested in aspects of military life at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Historians have argued that Victorian culture was omnipresent, but forts were located on the frontier, which was removed Read More …
Those familiar with the National Park Service’s training sessions most likely have noticed that many of these sessions have occurred at Fort Laramie. This volume brings together a variety of methods including remote sensing, geographic positioning systems, and aerial photography Read More …
During archaeological excavations within the perimeter of a small Plains Indian burial ground, near the historic Bordeaux Trading Post, eastern Wyoming, the grave of a White frontiersman was found. The large statured skeleton shows evidence of multiple gunshot wounds and Read More …