"Ruins, Reputations, and Regulation: Byron Cummings, William B. Douglass, John Wetherill, and the Summer of 1909", by Hal K. Rothman. Journal of the Southwest 35:318-340, 1993.
Hal Rothman specializes in the history of the U.S. national monuments, both in the broad view (Rothman 1989) and focused upon specific Southwest monuments (Rothman 1988, 1991). This article takes up one of his major interests - the shift in the West from local and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
1994-05-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the History of Archaeology |
| Online Access: | http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/398 |
| Summary: | Hal Rothman specializes in the history of the U.S. national
monuments, both in the broad view (Rothman 1989) and focused upon specific Southwest
monuments (Rothman 1988, 1991). This article takes up one of his major interests - the
shift in the West from local and regional interests in management of Federal lands to
national interests - and uses the formation of Navajo National Monument as an example.
The story begins with Richard Wetherill's excavations in Mesa Verde, Grand Gulch, but
particularly Chaco Canyon, which gain him a reputation both among local "archaeologists"
and in Washington as a pothunter and exploiter of American prehistory. Individuals in
the Southwest such as Edgar L. Hewett pushed for a federal antiquities law to protect
sites from people such as Wetherill. The resulting Antiquities Act of 1906 was partly
due to the activities, real or perceived, of Richard Wetherill. |
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| ISSN: | 1062-4740 2047-6930 |