BLM Cultural Resource Series

Cultural resource series publications are produced at the state office level. Please click on a state name below to view a list of publications. For assistance locating or accessing publications, please contact the BLM Library.

ALASKA

If you would like more information about publications, contact the BLM-Alaska Public Room.

BLM Alaska Open File Report Series:

• Buzzell, Rolfe G., and Darrell L. Lewis. 1997. Historic Buildings Survey Report: Flat, Alaska. Alaska BLM Open File Report 64. Bureau of Land Management.

• Buzzell, Rolfe G., ed. 1997. Flat and Iditarod 1993-1995: Oral History Interviews. Alaska BLM Open File Report 66. Bureau of Land Management.

• Kunz, Michael, Michael Beaver, and Constance Adkins. 2003. The Mesa Site: Paleoindians above the Arctic Circle. Alaska BLM Open File Report 86. Bureau of Land Management.

• Lanford, Steve, and Robin Mills.  Hills Brothers Coffee Can Chronology Field Guide. Alaska BLM Open File Report 109. Bureau of Land Management.

• L'Ecuyer, Rosalie E. 1993. Ruby-Poorman Mining District - Ruby Quadrangle, Alaska. Alaska BLM Open File Report 49. Bureau of Land Management.

• L'Ecuyer, Rosalie E. 1997. Prospecting and Mining Activity in the Rampart, Manley Hot Springs and Fort Gibbon Mining Districts of Alaska, 1894 to the Present Era. Alaska BLM Open File Report 61. Bureau of Land Management.

• Smith, Howard L. 1992. Nome River Water Control Structures. Alaska BLM Open File Report 62. Bureau of Land Management.

• Smith, Howard L., and Janet Vreeman. 1995. Cultural Resource Inventory in the Bendeleben and Darby Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Alaska BLM Open File Report 57. Bureau of Land Management.

• Walton, Beth E., and Cheryl A. McCaffrey. 1984. Denali Mine On Valdez Creek, South Central Alaska: A Cultural Resources Evaluation. Alaska BLM Open File Report 9. Bureau of Land Management.

• Will, Susan M. 1986. Beaver Creek National Wild River Cultural Resources Inventory. Alaska BLM Open File Report 19. Bureau of Land Management

BLM Alaska Technical Report Series:

• Kari, James, and Siri Tuttle. 2005. Copper River Native Places: A report on culturally important places to Alaska Native tribes in Southcentral Alaska. Alaska Technical Report 56. Bureau of Land Management..

• Shinkwin, Anne D., Elizabeth F. Andrews, Russell H. Sackett, and Mary V. Kroul. 1978. Fort Egbert and the Eagle Historic District: Results of Archaeological and Historic Research, Summer 1977. Alaska Technical Report 2. Bureau of Land Management.

BLM Alaska Adventures in the Past Series:

• BLM, Eagle Historical Society, and Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. 1992. The Eagle-Valdez Trail: Northern Portion. BLM Adventures in the Past Series. 

• Capps, Kris, and Pam Tacquard. 1999. The Search for Gold along the Koyukuk River. BLM Adventures in the Past Series 4.

• Gagner, Kathleen. 1997. Early Miners of the Fortymile. BLM Adventures in the Past Series.

ARIZONA

Visit the Arizona Public Room for more information about publications.

• Bronitsky, Gordon and James D. Merritt. 1986.  The Archaeology of Southeast Arizona: A Class I Cultural Resource Inventory. Arizona BLM Cultural Resource Publication 2. Bureau of Land Management. 

• Burggraaf, Pieter. 1996.  Harqua Hala Letters: The Story of Arizona’s Forgotten Smithsonian Observatory. Arizona BLM Cultural Resource Publication 9. Bureau of Land Management. 

• Hadley, Diana, Peter Warshall, and Don Bufkin. 1991.  Environmental Change in Aravaipa, 1870-1970, An Ethnoecological Survey. Arizona BLM Cultural Resource Publication 7. Bureau of Land Management.

• Hadley, Diana, Richard V. N. Ahlstrom, and Scott Mills. 1993.  El Rio Bonito: An Ethnoecological Study of the Bonita Creek Watershed, Southeastern Arizona. Arizona BLM Cultural Resource Publication 8. Bureau of Land Management. 

• Huckell, Bruce B. 1986.   A Ground Stone Implement Quarry on the Lower Colorado River, Northwestern Arizona. Arizona BLM Cultural Resource Publication 3. Bureau of Land Management.

• Stone, Connie L. 1986.  Deceptive Desolation: Prehistory of the Sonoran Desert in West Central Arizona. Arizona BLM Cultural Resource Publication 1. Bureau of Land Management.

• Stone, Connie L. 1987.  People of the Desert, Canyons and Pines: Prehistory of the Patayan Country in West Central Arizona. Arizona BLM Cultural Resource Publication 5. Bureau of Land Management. 

• Stone, Connie L. 1991.  The Linear Oasis: Managing Cultural Resources Along the Lower Colorado River. Arizona BLM Cultural Resource Publication 6. Bureau of Land Management.

• Westfall, Deborah A., with contributions by Mark C. Bond, William E. Davis, Linda J. Scott, and Margaret A. Van Ness. 1987.  The Pinenut Site: Virgin Anasazi Archaeology on the Kanab Plateau of Northwestern Arizona. Arizona BLM Cultural Resource Publication 4. Bureau of Land Management. 

CALIFORNIA

For more information about publications visit the BLM California Public Room.

• Bean, Lowell John, Sylvia Brakke Vane, and Jackson Young. 1981.  The Cahuilla and the Santa Rosa Mountain Region: Places and their Native American Association. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Busby, Colin I., John M. Findlay, and James C. Bard. 1979.  A Culture Resource Overview of the Bureau of Land Management Coleville, Bodie, Benton, and Owens Valley Planning Units, California. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management,California.

• Cook, John R., and Scott G. Fulmer. 1982.  The Archaeology of the McCain Valley Study Area in Eastern San Diego County, California. A Scientific Class II Cultural Resource Inventory. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Coombs, Gary B. 1979.  The Archaeology of the Northeast Mojave Desert. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Coombs, Gary B. 1979.  The Archaeology of the Western Mojave. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Davis, Emma Lou, Kathyrn H. Brown, and Jacqueline Nichols. 1980.  Evaluation of Early Human Activities and Remains in the California Desert. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Garfinkel, Alan P. 1980.  A Cultural Resource Management Plan for the Fossil Falls/Little Lake Locality. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Hamusek, Blossom, Eric W. Ritter, and Julie Burcell. 1997.  Archaeological Explorations in Shasta Valley, California. BLM Redding Field Office, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Kaldenberg, Russell L. General Editor. 1981.  The Prehistory and Management of Cultural Resources in the Red Mountain Area. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• King, Jerome H., William R. Hildebrandt and Sharon A. Waechter. 2016.  Cultural Resources Overview for Northwestern California. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.   

• Lyneis, Margaret M., David L. Weide, and Elizabeth von Till Warren. 1980.  Impacts: Damage to Cultural Resources in the California Desert. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California

• Norwood, Richard H., Cahrles S. Bull, and Ronald Quinn. 1980.  A Cultural Resource Overview of the Eureka, Saline, Panamint and Darwin Region, East Central, California. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Ritter, Eric W. 1986.  The Historic Archaeology of a Chinese Mining Venture Near Igo in Northern California. BLM Cultural Resources Report, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Russell, John C., Clyde M. Woods, and Jackson Underwood. 2002.  An Assessment of the Imperial Sand Dunes as a Native American Cultural Landscape. Edaw, Inc. for the California State Office, Bureau of Land Management. 

• Smith, Dottie. 1992.  "The Historic Blue Ridge Flume of Shasta and Tehama Counties, California." Gold and Lumber: Two Papers on Northern California History and Archaeology. BLM Redding Field Office, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Smith, Dottie. 1995.  Historic Data Inventory of the Shasta County Interlakes Special Recreation Management Area. BLM Redding Field Office, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Stickel, E. Gary, Lois J. Weinman-Roberts, Rainer Berger, and Pare Hopa. 1980.  An Overview of the Cultural Resources of the Western Mojave Desert. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Swope, Karen and Carrie J. Gregory.  2017. Mining in the Southern California Deserts: A Historic Context Statement and Research Design. Statistical Research Inc. Technical Report 17-42

• Vaughan, Trudy, Eric W. Ritter. 1992.  "Historical and Archaeological Investigations of the Horsetown Mining Complex, Shasta County, California." Gold and Lumber: Two Papers on Northern California History and Archaeology. BLM Redding Field Office, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• von Till Warren, Elizabeth, Robert H. Crabtree, Claude N. Warren, Martha Knack, and Richard McCarty. 1981.  A Cultural Resources Overview of the Colorado Desert Planning Units. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Warren, Claude N., Martha Knack, and Elizabeth von Till Warren. 1980.  A Cultural Resource Overview for the Amargosa-Mojave Basin Planning Units. BLM Cultural Resources Publication, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Weide, Margaret L. 1973.  Archaeological Inventory of the California Desert: A Proposed Methodology. BLM Desert Planning Program, Bureau of Land Management, California.

• Weide, Margaret L., and James P. Barker et.al. 1974.  Background to Prehistory of the Yuha Desert Region. BLM Desert Planning Program, Bureau of Land Management, California.

COLORADO

Visit the Colorado State Office Public Room for more information about publications.

• Athearn, Frederic J. 1982.  An Isolated Empire: A History of Northwestern Colorado. 3rd ed. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 2.

• Athearn, Frederic J. 1985.  Land of Contrast: A History of Southeast Colorado. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 17.

• Athearn, Frederic J. 1988.  Habitat in the Past: Historical Perspectives of Riparian Zones on the White River. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 23.

• Athearn, Frederic J. 1992.  A Forgotten Kingdom: The Spanish Frontier in Colorado and New Mexico, 1540-1821. 2nd ed. Colorado Bureau of Land Management. OUT OF PRINT

• Athearn, Frederic J. 1994.  A View to the Past--A Window to the Future: A Guide to Photo Documenting Historic Places. 2nd ed. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 30.

• Baker, Steven G. 1992. Ephemeral Archaeology on the Mountain of the Sorrel Deer: A Site in Delta County, Colorado. Colorado Bureau of Land Management,  Cultural Resource Series No. 32.

• Breternitz, David A., et al. 1979.  The Archaeology and Stabilization of Dominguez and Escalante Ruins. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 7. OUT OF PRINT

• Conner, Carl, et al. 1989.  The Excavation of Hummingbird Rock Shelter. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 27.

• Gooding, John, and William Lane Shields. 1985.  Sisyphus Shelter. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 18. OUT OF PRINT

• Gordon, E. Kinzie, and Kris J. Kranzush, et al. 1983.  A Cultural Resources Inventory of Texas-Missouri-Evacuation Creeks, Colorado. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 15.

• Grady, James. 1980.  Environmental Factors in Archaeological Site Locations. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 9.

• Gunnerson, James H. 1987.  Archaeology of the High Plains. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 19.

• Gunnerson, James H., and Dolores A. Gunnerson. 1989.  Ethnohistory of the High Plains. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 26.

• Hull, Deborah A., and Douglas D. Scott. 1977.  A Bibliography of the Archaeology of Southwestern Colorado : Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata and Montezuma Counties. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 5.

• Hurlbett, Robert E. 1977.  Environmental Constraint and Settlement Predictability, Northwestern Colorado. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 3.

• Kuntz, David W., Harley J. Armstrong, and Frederic J. Athearn. 1989.  Faults, Fossils and Canyons: The Final Geologic Advisory Group Report. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, 25.

• La Point, Halcyon. 1987.  A Class I Overview of Prehistoric Cultural Resources Little Snake Resource Area, Moffat, Routt, and Rio Blanco Counties Colorado. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 20.

• Lischka, Joseph J., et al. 1983.  Archaeological Inventory in North Park, Colorado. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 14.

• McKern, W.C. 1983. Western Colorado Petroglyphs. Reprint. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 8.

• Mehls, Steven F. 1983.  Valley of Opportunity: A History of West-Central Colorado. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 12. OUT OF PRINT

• Mehls, Steven F. 1984.  New Empire of the Rockies: A History of Northeast Colorado. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 16

• Metcalf, Michael D., et. al. 1991. Archaeological Excavations at the Yarmony Pit House Site, Eagle County, Colorado. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 31.

• Murray, Robert A. 1978.  Las Animas, Huerfano and Custer: Three Colorado Counties on a Cultural Frontier: A History of the Raton Basin. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 6.

• Nickens, Paul R., Signa L. Larralde and Gordon C. Tucker, Jr. 1981.  A Survey of Vandalism to Archaeological Resources in Southwestern Colorado. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 11.

• Nickens, Paul R., et al. 1982. Archaeological Resources of Southwestern Colorado: San Juan Resource Area, Uncompahgre and Gunnison Resource Areas, San Miguel Resource Area. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 13.

• O'Rourke, Paul M. 1980.  Frontier in Transition: A History of Southwestern Colorado. Reprint. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 10.

• Toll, Henry Wolcott, III. 1977.  Dolores River Archaeology: Canyon Adaptations As Seen Through Survey. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 4.

• Tucker, Gordon C. Jr., et al. 1989.  The Harris Site Excavation. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 28.

• White, Adrian S., and David A Breternitz. 1976.  The Stabilization of the Lowry Ruins. Colorado Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resource Series No. 1.

 

Other BLM publications:

• Judge, W. James, and Sebastian, Lynne, editors. 1988. Quantifying the Present and Predicting the Past: Theory, Method, and Application of Archaeological Predictive Modeling. 1988. Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center, Denver, Colorado.

EASTERN STATES

Visit the Eastern States Office Public Room for more information about publications.

• Harrison, C. 1985. The Archaeology of Two Lakes in Minnesota. Bureau of Land Management Eastern States Cultural Resource Publication #2.

• Kuizon, L. 2008. Geology and Paleontology of the Bureau of Land Management Douglas Point Special Recreation Management Area, Charles County, Maryland. Bureau of Land Management Eastern States Cultural Resource Publication #3.

• Niquette, C.M. and A.G. Henderson. 1984. Background to the Historic and Prehistoric Resources of Eastern Kentucky. Bureau of Land Management Eastern States Cultural Resource Publication #1.

 

IDAHO

For more information contact the Idaho Bureau of Land Management Public Room.

• Baker Caves: A Look Into the Past. Idaho Bureau of Land Management, 1994. Idaho BLM Cultural Resource 2. Restricted.

• Hutchison, Daniel J., and Larry R. Jones, tech. eds. 1993.  Emigrant Trails of Southern Idaho. Idaho Bureau of Land Management. Idaho BLM Cultural Resource 1.

• James, Ronald L. 1995.  Ruins of a World: Chinese Gold Mining at the Mon-Tung Site in the Snake River Canyon. John C. Lytle, tech. ed. Idaho Bureau of Land Management. Idaho BLM Cultural Resource 4.

• Wegars, Priscilla. 2001. Uncovering a Chinese Legacy: Historical Archaeology at Centerville, Idaho. Idaho Bureau of Land Management.  Idaho BLM Cultural Resource 5.

 

Idaho BLM Cultural Resource Brochures:

• A Step at a Time: The Oregon Trail. Idaho Bureau of Land Management, 1993.

• The Oregon Trail in Idaho and Other Emigrant Trails (revised). Idaho Bureau of Land Management, Idaho Travel Council, 2003.

• The Flight of the Nez Perce through Leadore and Island Park, Idaho to West Yellowstone, Montana, August 1877 Auto Tour. Idaho Bureau of Land Management, USDA Forest Service, National Park Service, Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation, Idaho State Historical Society and Island Park and West Yellowstone Historical Societies, 2002.

• Idaho Lewis and Clark National Backcountry Byway and Adventure Road. Idaho Bureau of Land Management - Salmon Field Office and the Salmon Challis National Forests, 2001. (BLM publication no. BLMID/ GI/90-016+4333 rev 01).

• Lewis and Clark Expedition, Lemhi County, Idaho. USDA-Forest Service, Idaho Bureau of Land Management, and River of No Return Interpretive Association, n.d.

• Lewis and Clark, Naturalists in Lemhi County: A Naturalist’s Journey with the Corps of Discovery. Idaho Bureau of Land Management,USDA Forest Service – Salmon Challis National Forest, n.d. (BLM Publication No. BLM/ID/GI-00/002+1050)

Other Publications:

• Crosby, Mike. 2004. Joined by a Journey: The Lives of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery. Idaho Bureau of Land Management.

MONTANA/DAKOTAS

For more information about publications contact the BLM Montana/Dakotas Public Room. 

• Davis, Leslie B., ed.  2010. Precontact Archaeology and Prehistory of the Central Montana High Plains. Montana Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resources Series No. 5.

• Deaver, Sherri, and Ken Deaver. 1990. An Archeological Overview of the Butte District Prehistory. Montana Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resources Series No. 2.

• Gregg, Michael L. 1984.  An Overview of the Prehistory of Western and Central North Dakota. Montana Bureau of Land Management, and University of North Dakota. Montana Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resources Series No. 1.

• Hill, Christopher L., and Leslie B. Davis. 2005.  The Merrell Locality & Centennial Valley, southwest Montana; Pleistocene Geology, Paleontology, & Prehistoric Archaeology. Montana Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resources Series No. 4.

• Knudson, Ruthann. 1992. Upper Missouri National Wild and Scenic River Cultural Resource Management Plan, Volume 1. Montana Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resources Series No. 3.

• Roll, Tom, and Michael P. Neeley. 2003. The Camp Baker Quarry (24ME467): 2001. Montana Bureau of Land Management, Cultural Resources Series No. 6.

Other BLM publications:

• Adams, Tammie, editor. 2021.The Road to Garnet's Gold: A brief history of Montana's Gold Rush featuring one of the last ghost towns. Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center, Denver, Colorado.

NEVADA

For more information about publications contact the BLM Nevada Public Room.

• Aikens, C. M., ed. 1986.  Current Status of CRM Archaeology in the Great Basin. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #9.

• Bard, J. C., C. I. Busby, and J. M. Findlay. 1981.  A Cultural Resources Overview of the Carson & Humboldt Sinks, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #2.

• Bengston, G. 2003.  Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone Land Use in Northern Nevada: A Class I Ethnographic/Ethnohistoric Overview. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #12.

• Bowen, M. E. 2007. The First Homesteaders of Tobar Flat, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #17.

• Bowers, M. H., and H. Muessig. 1982.  History of Central Nevada: An Overview of the Battle Mountain District. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #4.

• Cannon, M. D. 2008. Data Recovery Excavations at Five Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in the Little Boulder Basin, Eureka County, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #19.

• Cannon, M. D. 2012.  A Revised Research Context for the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Little Boulder Basin Area, North-Central Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #21.

• Drews, M., E. Ingbar, D. Zeanah, and W. A. Eckerle. 2004. A Cultural Resources Model for Pine Valley, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #13.

• Drews, M., E. Ingbar, and A. Branigan. 2004. Great Basin Restoration Initiative: Cultural Resources Landscape Level Planning Model. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #14.

• Elston, R. G., and K. Juell. 1987.  Archaeological Investigations at Panaca Summit. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #10.

• Elston, R. G., C. Raven, and E. E. Budy. 2006. An Intensive Reconnaissance of the Tosawihi Quarries Archaeological District (Site 26EK3032). Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #16. 

• Hardesty, D. L. 1979.  The Pony Express in Central Nevada: Archaeological and Documentary Perspectives. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #1.

• Hockett, B., ed. 2009. Past, Present and Future Issues in Great Basin Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Don D. Fowler. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #20.

• James, S. R., ed. 1981.  Prehistory, Ethnohistory, and History of Eastern Nevada: A Cultural Resources Summary of the Elko and Ely Districts. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #3.

• Kelly. R. L. 2007. Mustang Shelter: Test Excavations of a Rockshelter in the Stillwater Mountains, Western Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #18.

• Obermayr, E. 2014. Foot Path to Four-Lane: A Historical Guidebook to Transportation on Lake Tahoe’s Southeast Shore. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #22.

• Pendleton, L. S. A., A. McLane, and D. H. Thomas. 1982.  Cultural Resource Overview, Carson City District, West Central Nevada. Vol. 1. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #5v1.

• Pendleton, L. S. A., A. McLane, and D. H. Thomas. 1982.  Cultural Resource Overview, Carson City District, West Central Nevada. Vol. 2. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #5v2.

• Smith, R. C., P. Mc. Jones, J. R. Roney, and K. E. Pedrick. 1983.  Prehistory and History of the Winnemucca District: A Cultural Resources Literature Overview. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #6.

• Spencer, L., R. C. Hanes, C. S. Fowler, and S. Jaynes. 1987.  The South Fork Shelter Site Revisited: Excavation at Upper Shelter, Elko County, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #11.

• Stoffle, R. W., and H. F. Dobyns. 1983.  Nuvagantu: Nevada Indians Comment on the Intermountain Power Project. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #7.

• Zeier, C. D. 1985.  Archaeological Data Recovery Associated with the Mt. Hope Project, Eureka County, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #8.

• Zeanah, D., E. Ingbar, R. G. Elston, and C. D. Zeier. 2004. Archaeological Predictive Model, Management Plan and Treatment Plans for Northern Railroad Valley, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Publication #15.

 

Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Reports:

• Bard, J. C., C. I. Busby, and L. S. Kobori. 1980.  Test Excavations at Painted Cave, Pershing County, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #5.

• Botti, N., P. McGuckian, R. York and M. Henderson. 1979.  Oil and Gas/Geothermal Program Inventories. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #3.

• Crabtree, R. H., and D. D. Ferraro. 1980.  Artifact Assemblages from Pahranagat, Lincoln County, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #4.

• Hardesty, D. L., and E. M. Hattori. 1982.  Archaeological Studies in the Cortez Mining District, 1981. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #8.

• Hardesty, D. L., and E. M. Hattori. 1983.  Archaeological Studies in the Cortez Mining District, 1982. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #12.

• Hattori, E. M., L. L. Armentrout, C. S. Larsen, and D. L. Hutchinson. 1987.  An Ethnohistoric Infant Burial from Western Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #16.

• Hockett, B. and E. Dillingham. 2004. Paleontological Investigations at Mineral Hill Cave. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #18.

• Hockett, B., and J. Spidell. 2022. Early and Middle Archaic Projectile Point Typology and Chronology Across the Great Basin. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #19

• Jones, P. M. 1980. Emigrant Trails in the Black Rock Desert. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #6.

• Kelly, R. L. 1983. An Examination of Amateur Collections from the Carson Sink, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #10.

• McGonagle, R. L., and L. L. Waski. 1978.  Archaeological Survey of Springs, Tonopah Resource Area. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #2.

• Myhrer, K., and M. M. Lyneis. 1985.  The Bovine Bluff Site: An Early Puebloan Site in the Upper Moapa Valley. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #15.

• Myhrer, K., W. G. White, and S. D. Rolf. 1990. Archaeology of the Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road from Las Vegas, Nevada to the California Border. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #17.

• Pedrick, K. E. 1985.  The Lake Range Quarry, Washoe County, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #14.

• Rafferty, K. A. 1984. Cultural Resources Overview of the Las Vegas Valley. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #13.

• Rusco, M. K., and J. Munoz. 1983.  An Archaeological Survey in the Mormon Mountains, Lincoln County, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #11.

• Turner, A. L. 1982.  The History and Archaeology of Fenelon, A Historic Railroad Camp. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #9.

• Welch, P. 1981.  An Historic Overview of the BLM Shoshone-Eureka Resource Area, Nevada. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #7.

• Young, R. 1977.  Studies at Adams-McGill Reservoir: Exercises in Applying Small Project Data to Archaeological Research. Nevada Bureau of Land Management. Nevada BLM Cultural Resource Technical Report #1.

NEW MEXICO

For more information about publications contact the BLM New Mexico Public Room.

• Camilli, Eileen, Dabney Ford, and Signa Larralde. 1988.  Report of the First Field Season – San Augustine Coal Area, Archeological Investigations in West-Central New Mexico. Vol. 1. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 3.
• Creel, Darrell. 2006. Excavations at the Old Town Ruin, Luna County, New Mexico, 1989-2003. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 16.
• Gerow, Peggy A. 2004. Guardian of the Trail: Archeological & Historical Investigations at Fort Craig. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 15.
• Hogan, Patrick, and Michael P. Marshall. 1991.  Rethinking Navajo Pueblitos. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 8. 
• Jacobson, LouAnn, and June-el Piper, eds. 1992.  Interpreting the Past: Research with Public Participation. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 10. 
• Kayser, David A., and Charles H. Carroll. 1988.  Report of the Final Field Season – San Augustine Coal Area, Archaeological Investigations in West-Central New Mexico. Vol. 3. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 5
• Kelley, Klara. 1988.  Historic Cultural Resources – San Augustine Coal Area, Archaeological Investigations in West-Central New Mexico. Vol. 2. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 4. 
• Nials, Fred, John Stein and John Roney. 1987.  Chacoan Roads in the Southern Periphery: Results of Phase II of the BLM Chaco Roads Project. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 1. 
• Palmer, Gabrielle G., comp. 1993.  El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. Vol. 1. LouAnn Jacobson and June-el Piper, eds. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 11.
• Palmer, Gabrielle G., and Stephen L. Fosberg, comps. 1999.  El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. Vol. 2. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 13. 
• Powers, Margaret A., and Byron P. Johnson. 1987.  Defensive Sites of Dinetah. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 2. 
• Reed, Lori Stephens, and Paul F. Reed, eds. 1992.  Cultural Diversity and Adaptation: The Archaic, Anasazi, and Navajo Occupation of the Upper San Juan Basin. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 9. 
• Shelly, Phillip H. and Kristen E. Wenzel, eds. 2002. Archaeological Variation within the Middle Rio Bonito. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 14. 
• Sebastian, Lynn, and Signa Larralde. 1989.  Living on the Land: 11,000 Years of Human Adaptation in Southeastern New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 6. 
• Staski, Edward. 1993.  Research on the American West: Archeology at Forts Cummings and Fillmore. New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Publication 12. 

 

OREGON/WASHINGTON

For more information about publications contact the BLM Oregon/Washington Public Room.

• Hanes, Richard C. 1993.  Oregon Trail Histories. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 9. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• Lebow, Clayton G. et al. 1990.  A Cultural Resource Overview for the 1990's, BLM Prineville District, Oregon. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 5. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• Mack, Joanne M., et al. 1991. Klamath River Canyon Prehistory and Ethnology. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 8. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• Minor, Rick. 1989. Archaeology of the North Yaquina Head Shell Middens, Central Oregon Coast. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 3. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• Minor, Rick. 1991. Yaquina Head: A Middle Archaic Settlement on the North-Central Oregon Coast.  Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 6. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• Minor, Rick, Toepel, Kathryn Anne & Greenspan, Ruth L. 1987. Archaeological Investigations at Yaquina Head, Central Oregon Coast. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 1. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• Musil, Robert R. & Minor, Rick. 1994. The Bravo Creek Site: A Lithic Workshop in the Klamath Mountain Foothills, Curry County, Oregon. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 10. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• O'Neill, Brian L. 1989. Archaeological Investigations at the Narrows and Martin Creek Sites, Douglas County, Oregon : Two Riverside Sites in the Middle Umpqua Basin. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 4. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• Pettigrew, Richard M., & Lebow, Clayton G. An Archaeological Survey of the Trout Creek-Oregon Canyon Uplands, Harney and Malheur Counties, Oregon. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 2. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• Ross, Michelle Antonia. 2001. Test Excavations at Three Mid-Elevation Rock Art Sites, Warner Valley, Oregon. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 12. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• Silvermoon, Jon Massoglia. 1994. Archaeological Investigations at the Peninsula Site, 35KL87, Gerber Reservoir, South-Central Oregon. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 11. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.
• Southard, Michael D. ed. 1991. Archaeological Investigations on the Western Flank of the South-Central Cascades, Land and Douglas Counties, Oregon. Oregon BLM Cultural Resource Series No. 7. Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.

UTAH

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• Atkins, Victoria M., ed. 1993.  Anasazi Basketmaker: Papers from the 1990 Wetherill-Grand Gulch Symposium. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 24. Utah Bureau of Land Management. 
• Baker, Steven G. 1982.  Contributions to the Prehistory of Southeastern Utah. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 13. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Berge, Dale L. 1980.  Simpson Springs Station Historical Archaeology in Western Utah. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 6. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Black, Kevin D., and Michael D. Metcalf. 1986.  The Castle Valley Archaeological Project: An Inventory and Predictive Model of Selected Tracts. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 19. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Bradley, John E., William R. Killam, George R. Burns, and Marilyn A. Martorano. 1986.  An Archaeological Survey and Predictive Model of Selected Areas of Utah's Cisco Desert. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Series 18. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Dalley, Gardiner F., and Douglas A. McFadden. 1985.  The Archaeology of the Red Cliffs Site. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 17. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Dalley, Gardiner F., and Douglas A. McFadden. 1988.  The Little Man Archaeological Sites: Excavations on the Virgin River Near Hurricane, Utah. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 23. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Fike, Richard E., and David B. Madsen. 1981.  Excavation of Two Anasazi Sites in Southern Utah. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 9. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Fike, Richard E., and H. Blaine Phillips II, et al. 1984.  A Nineteenth Century Ute Burial from Northeast Utah. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 16. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Fike, Richard E., and John W. Headley. 1979.  The Pony Express Stations of Utah in Historical Perspective. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 2. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Geib,Phil R., Jim H. Collette, and Kimberly Spurr. 2001.  KAIBABITSINUNGWU: An Archaeological Survey of the Kaiparowits Plateau. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 25. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Hauck, F.R. 1979.  Cultural Resource Evaluation In Central Utah 1977. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 3. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Hauck, F.R. 1979.  Cultural Resource Evaluation In South Central Utah 1977-1978. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 4. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Larralde, Signa L. and Susan M. Chandler. 1980. Archaeological Inventory in the Seep Ridge Cultural Study Tract, Uintah County, Northeastern Utah. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 11. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Madsen, David B., and Richard E. Fike. 1982.  Archaeological Investigations in Utah at Fish Springs, Clay Basin, Northern San Rafael Swell, and Southern Henry Mountains. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 12. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Madsen, David B. 1983.  Black Rock Cave Revisited. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 14. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Martin, Curtis W., Harley J. Armstrong, Sally M. Crum, Barbara J. Kutz, and Lester A. Wheeler. 1983. Cedar Siding Shelter Archaeological Excavation of A Multi-Aspect Overhang Emery County, Utah. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 15. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• McFadden, Douglas A. 2012. The Arroyo Site, 42Ka3976: A Virgin Anasazi PII/III Farmstead. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 27. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• McFadden, Douglas A. 2016. Formative Chronology and Site Distribution on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: A Research Reference. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 28. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Nickens, Paul R. 1980.  Sample Inventories of Oil & Gas Fields in Eastern Utah, 1978-1979. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 5. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Polk, Michael R. 2021.  Rails East to Ogden, Utah's Transcontinental Railroad Story. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Series 29. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Raymond, Anan S., and Richard E. Fike. 1981.  Rails East to Promontory, The Utah Stations. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Series 8. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Raymond, Anan S., and Richard E. Fike. 1994.  Rails East to Promontory, The Utah Stations. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Series 8 - Special Edition Reprint. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Spangler, Jerry D., and Matthew K. Zweifel. 2021. Deep Roots: A 10,000-Year Indigenous History of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 30. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Tennant, William L. 1984.  John Jarvie of Brown’s Park. 3rd. ed. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 7. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Tips, Betsy L. 1988.  The Tar Sands Project: An Inventory and Predictive Model for Central and Southern Utah. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 22. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Thompson, Richard A. 1978.  A Stratified Random Sample of the Cultural Resources in the Canyonlands Section of the Moab District of the Bureau of Land Management in Eastern Utah. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 1. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Walling, Barbara A., and Richard A. Thompson. 2004. Archeology of the Dead Raven Site. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 26.  Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Walling, Barbara A., Richard A. Thompson, Gardiner F. Dalley, and Dennis G. Weder. 1986.  Excavations at Quail Creek. Utah BLM Cultual Resource Publication 20. Utah Bureau of Land Management.
• Westfall, Deborah A., William E. Davis, and Eric Blinman. 1987.  Green Spring: An Anasazi and Southern Paiute Encampment in the St. George Basin of Utah. Utah BLM Cultural Resource Publication 21. Utah Bureau of Land Management.

WYOMING

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• Class II Cultural Resource Survey of the Overland Planning Unit. Wyoming BLM Cultural Resource Publication 1. Wyoming Bureau of Land Management, 1984.

• Gardner, A. Dudley, William R. Snell, and David E. Johnson. 1987.  Historic Investigations of the Bear River Divide Segment of the Oregon Trail. Wyoming BLM Cultural Resource Publication 5. Wyoming Bureau of Land Management.

• Harrell, Lynn L. 1989.  The Buffalo Hump Site - Late Prehistoric Occupation in the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming. Wyoming BLM Cultural Resource Publication 7. Wyoming Bureau of Land Management.

• Larson, Thomas K., Paul H. Sanders, William L Tibesar, and Michael McFaul. 1984.  Archeological Investigations of the Deer Creek Site 48BH18 Big Horn County, Wyoming. Wyoming BLM Cultural Resource Publication 2. Wyoming Bureau of Land Management.

• Latady, William JR. 1986.  Archaeological Investigations Along Sage Creek Road, Carbon County, Wyoming. Wyoming BLM Cultural Resource Publication 4. Wyoming Bureau of Land Management.

• Reust, Thomas P., Darryl W. Newton, Rick L. Weathermon, William M. Harding, and Craig S. Smith. 1993.  The Bairoil Archaeological Project: 7500 Years of Prehistory in the Bairoil Area, Carbon and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming. Wyoming BLM Cultural Resource Publication 8. Wyoming Bureau of Land Management.

• Schroedl, Alan R. 1985.  Archaic and Late Prehistoric Adaptation in Southwestern Wyoming; The Frontier Pipeline Excavations. Wyoming BLM Cultural Resource Publication 3. Wyoming Bureau of Land Management.

• Smith, Craig S., and Steven D. Creasman. 1988.  The Taliaferro Site - 5000 Years of Prehistory in Southwest Wyoming. Wyoming BLM Cultural Resource Publication 6. Wyoming Bureau of Land Management.