Research

My research interests center on the Ozark Highlands of the midcontinent, and on the Great Plains of North America, and include both prehistoric studies and ethnohistory—especially of the Plains village peoples. I am interested primarily in the archaeology, ethnohistory, and Quaternary paleoecology of the North American Great Plains and Midwest states of North America, particularly the environmental and processual bases for the culture histories of these areas. The archaeology of World War II and the historical cartography of the Missouri River are major auxiliary interests.

A recent ethnohistorical research project is the book-length study, Prologue to Lewis and Clark: The Mackay-Evans Expedition, which focuses on historical events and Native Americans on the Upper Missouri River. This book was published in March 2003 by University of Oklahoma Press. The book-length study Karl Bodmer's Studio Art (2002) was published by the University of Illinois Press.

A book, Twilight of the Fur Trade, is scheduled to be published by the State Historical Society of North Dakota in 2008.

I am currently preparing a book-length monograph for the State Historical Society of North Dakota on the history and archaeology of Fort Clark, North Dakota, and the Mandan and Arikara Indian village that it served.

I also edit The Missouri Archaeologist, the journal of the Missouri Archaeological Society.
 

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