Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) Southwestern Archaeology Special Interest Group (SASIG) "Got CALICHE?" Newsletter Sunday July 2, 2000 ****************************************** EDITOR'S NOTE "Got CALICHE?" (SWA's branded newsletter) was distributed 141 times during the first six months of 2000. Our web space holds an archive of 786 KB of pure customer satisfaction. Although the URLs for most news stories have expired, the archival data remain useful for observing emerging trends and redirecting human capital. CALIFORNIA http://www.latimes.com/editions/valley/20000630/t000061970.html What was life like for women and girls in the Old West? "Beautiful Daring Western Girls" summer camp program, Mon-Fri from 1-4 p.m. at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage 323.667.2000 ARIZONA http://www.yumasun.com/columns/whenarizonawasyoung.shtml Was "Old Man" Adams just a con man, or was there a Lost Adams mine? http://www.al.com:80/news/huntsville/Jul2000/1-e35183.html The White Dove of the Desert draws 200,000-300,000 tourists each year. San Xavier was refurbished just before the American Civil War. After an earthquake in 1887, the church was again in need of repairs. A renovation project to restore the church to its original grandeur was completed in 1997. http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/000702onthego.html The Slaughter Ranch Museum, is a National Historic Landmark. Located along the Mexican border near Douglas, the ranch once spread into Mexico and a military garrison was posted there. Today, the 140 remaining acres of the ranch feature the restored main ranch house, the ice house, the wash house, a granary, a commissary and a car shed. http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/000702onthego.html One hundred years ago, in the late evening hours of July 14, the entire business district of Prescott was reduced to ashes. From July 14-16, the Sharlot Hall Museum, the Prescott Downtown Partnership, the Prescott Fire Department and the Prescott Historic Preservation Office will present a series of commemorative events in and around Prescott's historic downtown. For more information, call SHM 520.445.3122 NEVADA http://www.tahoe.com/appeal/stories.7.2.00/CARSON/trans02Jul2427.html The Nevada State Railroad Museum has hometown iron horses and visiting steam engines fired up and running on the museum's loops of rail in a parade of steam power. UTAH http://www.sltrib.com/07022000/utah/63711.htm Utah dinosaur venues draw over a half a million visitors a year. Palentologists and state tourism officials hope the new North American Museum of Ancient Life will tie various sites together and solidify Utah's reputation as a prehistoric attraction. http://www.sltrib.com:80/07022000/arts/63596.htm In those days, when one could order from Sears, James Swapp was not a wealthy man, but prosperous enough to order a $640 "Avoca." The James Swapp house is the sole Sears Roebuck catalog house in Kanab, it is also one of the few remaining catalog houses in Utah. http://news.excite.com:80/news/uw/000630/odd-5 The recognition of historical value can be good for business. Some of the sites include Provo Town Square, Jesse Knight Mansion, Utah County Courthouse, Provo Tabernacle and Hotel Roberts. Guidebooks are available via the Freedom Festival Web site . COLORADO http://www.cortezjournal.com/1news599.htm One of Dolores’ main attractions is the Galloping Goose. The car outside the Galloping Goose museum and historical society is an exact replica and was restored in 1995 with a grant from the Colorado Historical Society. It held 28 passengers on its trip from Ridgeway to Durango, and the historical society still fires it up for runs in Durango and outside of the museum. NEW MEXICO http://www.thedailypress.com/NewsFolder/New%20from%20news57.html The office of the New Mexico attorney general said that an appropriation to a family for the purchase of a cemetery would be illegal. The family discovered human remains and archaeologist Neal Ackerly of Dos Rios Consultants determined the remains had been in a coffin and began to suspect there could be more burials in the yard. Officials offered to relocate the burials, but the Chacons said they would prefer to move rather than disturb the graves. http://www.abqjournal.com/news/68223news07-01-00.htm Smokey Bear has friends in Capitan. And they are proud to call their town the home of Smokey Bear. There's Smokey Bear Boulevard, Smokey Bear Park, Smokey Bear Museum, Smokey Bear Visitor Center. Smokey Bear died in 1976. Smokey seemed ever so much part of the soul of Capitan. He is buried there. TEXAS http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/104554_canadian_01tex.html The bridge had been abandoned for almost 50 years. The project is a good example of renovation, preservation leadership, and community in Canadian. http://amarillonet.com/stories/070200/boo_tripp.shtml Miss Nellie Perry first saw the High Plains of the northern Texas Panhandle in 1888. She had traveled alone, by rail and stage. Her account of this visit and of others are among writings edited by a West Texas A&M University teacher to make a book that illuminates the role of women in the early history of this region. http://dallasnews.com/metro/105199_cowgirl_02met..html Backers hope new quarters will bring the organization broad recognition. The National Cowgirl Museum will begin construction early next year on a $21 million museum in Fort Worth's cultural district. Dedicated to the lives and accomplishments of women of the West, the museum's hundreds of artifacts include trick saddles, boots, chaps, vintage clothing and photographs, and historical papers documenting the lives of Western women. CYBERIA http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/06/lc_51bones01.frame A twist has been added to the dispute over Kennewick Man. The Yakama want to become co-defendants in a lawsuit filed by anthropologists seeking to study the skeleton. The tribal counterclaim says that anthropologists "have no rights to examination, study, possession or custody of the human remains in any way" under federal law. http://www.ardemgaz.com:80/today/ark/B1xcaddo2.html Dr. Thomas Hodges amassed an extensive collection of more than 55,000 pieces, including burial pots gathered from the Caddo Indians. Now local officials are working to have the entire collection placed on display in a museumlike setting. http://www.chicago.tribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-0007020246,00.html Valerio Salerno can show you holes where tombaroli have been busy. They come at night. Sometimes they are working with bulldozers, sometimes with just metal detectors, but nobody sees anything, nobody hears anything, nobody knows anything. Looting archeological sites has been a lucrative cottage industry in parts of rural Italy for centuries. But over the last two decades, it has blossomed into a $50 million to $100 million a year juggernaut. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2000/jul/02/070200981.html An American archaeology professor, Michael Martin Kumpf, 55, from Iowa, was detained by police at Athens international airport after they allegedly found an ancient unpainted vase, used for storing liquids, in his baggage before he boarded a plane for Chicago. http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=a2pRNX3L&atmo=ggggg3MK&pg=/et/00/7/2/wbo02.html ANTHROPOLOGISTS have a new tribe to study. Described as "half Hippie and half Yuppie", its members haunt gourmet markets and chic coffee houses, sipping organic, decaf double-lattes while studying internet stock prices in the Wall Street Journal. The Bourgeois Bohemians ("Bobos") represent America's new upper class. Their impact on our culture has been to take ideas from both the Left and Right and mix them together in a sort of post-ideological mush. ****************************************** SWA invites you to redistribute SWA's "Got CALICHE?" newsletter. Free newsletter subscription @ . Thanks for reading today's edition! Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. . Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest. Address: SWA, Inc., Box 61203, Phoenix, Arizona USA 85082-1203 Telephone: 602.882.8025 / FAX : 603.457.7957 Editor: Brian W. Kenny