Journal of the Southwest articles from June 2000

Journal of the Southwest archives from June 2000

"An Old and Reliable Authority": Introduction.(history of United States national parks and reserves)
June 22, 2000... "An old and reliable authority." Thus did George Benjamin Hartzog (1988: 220), Director of the National Park Service from 1964 to 1972, describe the nation's first archaeological preservation law, the Antiquities Act of 1906. He encouraged...

PART ONE: The Antiquities Act of 1906 by Ronald Freeman Lee.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... BEGINNINGS OF PUBLIC INTEREST IN AMERICAN INDIAN ANTIQUITIES The abandoned and ruined dwellings of prehistoric man in the American West had aroused the interest and comment of explorers and colonizers for centuries. Not until after the...

PART TWO: Edgar Lee Hewett and the Political Process.
June 22, 2000... HEWETT'S ROLE It took a quarter of a century for Congress to respond to efforts to protect archaeological resources on federal land. Or, as Edgar Lee Hewett (fig. 2) more diplomatically put it: "For a quarter of a century certain...

PART THREE: Photographs by George Alexander Grant of National Monuments and Parks in the American Southwest.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2000... Figure 14. El Morro National Monument, New Mexico (1906). (Grant negative El Morro 3, taken 29 July 1929.) Note: Figures 14-38 are arranged in the order of presidential proclamation of monuments under the authority of the Antiquities Act...