Les Davis: Search For the First Montanans / Episode 1: Montana's Indiana Jones

When Thomas Jefferson was planning the epic exploration of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, he instructed Lewis & Clark to be on the lookout for an elephant-like beast known as the American Incognitum. Clues to the animal’s existence included large fossilized molars and tusks found in upstate New York. They never encountered the extinct wooly mammoth, but Lewis & Clark made the earliest observations of archaeology in Montana. They recorded stick lodges along the Missouri, Petroglyphs on Pompey’s Piller on the Yellowstone and rotting carcasses at the bottom of a buffalo jump.

Early in his college career, Davis was inspired to pursue anthropology by a quirky English professor named Verne Dusenberry. Dusenberry’s influence led Davis to a budding amateur archaeological organization called the Milk River Society. That small rural Montana organization launched the careers of several well-known Yellowstone and Montana archaeologists.

Davis and his Milk River colleagues wrote some of the earliest papers on buffalo jumps on the in the northwestern plains and the first bow and arrow cultures in north America.

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