Other sources for archaeological reports on ranches include work done at
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in Montana and at the U.S. Army's
Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site in southeaster Colorado. Several national park
units have ranching contexts including Bighorn Canyon National Recreation
Area in MT and WY, Tall Grass Prairie National Preserve in KS, and Theodore
Roosevelt National Park in ND, and even the Lyndon B Johnson National
Historic Park in TX. Colorado put out their historic contexts for
historical archaeology in 2007, which includes ranching in the state.
Steve
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Smoke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The United States military started using headstamps in 1877 at the
> Frankford Arsenal to show origin, type, and date of manufacture. The
> .45 Colt cartridge was introduced with the United States Revolver of
> 1873. Other manufacturers gradually started using headstamps so that
> by 20 years later, almost all cartridges had headstamps. Your .45 Colt
> cartridges would date in the period from 1873 to the early 1890s. The
> case head will be of the balloon type in which the primer pocket
> protrudes into the powder chamber.
>
> (Note: some idiots today call the .45 Colt the ".45 Long Colt" so as
> to differentiate it from the .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol -
> introduced for the U.S. Model 1911 pistol) cartridge.)
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:45 PM, dallas ward <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Howdy Fellow HISTARCH listerv members,
> >
> > My name is Dallas and I am a graduate student in Heritage Management
> > at Texas Tech University. I work primarily in Historical Archaeology and
> > am currently working on a west Texas cowboy site. I have two questions
> > that hopefully some of you may be of assistance with.
> > First, do any of you now of any papers or reports related to
> ranching
> > or cowboy archaeology? I have only been able to locate a couple and this
> > seems strange to me, am I just missing something or are publications of
> > this sort just rare? I have the Fontanna - Johnny Ward's Ranch (1962),
> THC
> > - Walker Ranch report by Scurlock (1973), and one from U of A McGuire -
> > Rancho Punta de Agua (1979). I also have a CRM report out of Nevada but
> it
> > was little help. If anyone could offer suggestions or assistance with
> > sources I would greatly appreciate it.
> > Second, the cowboy camp has a large quantity of 45 caliber
> cartridges
> > without head stamps. Does this mean they are loading their own maybe at
> > the headquarters? If so I have been unable to find a source in support
> of
> > this theory.
> > I greatly appreciate any help or insight. Unfortunately due to
> > confidentiality issues I am unable to supply any pics or much of a
> > description beyond the vague description of a cowboy camp, possibly a
> > line-camp in western Texas dating to approximately 1890. Thanks in
> advance
> > for your responses.
> >
> > -Dallas Ward
>
>
>
> --
> Smoke Pfeiffer
> In other news, the wolves and coyotes have finished investigating
> a break-in at the henhouse. The fox has been cleared.
>
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Scandal in Bohemia")
Steven L. De Vore, Archeologist
National Park Service
Midwest Archeological Center
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