E.B. Renaud letters 1930-1934.

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E.B. Renaud letters 1930-1934.

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This collection contains numerous pieces of correspondence from about 1930 regarding Colorado fossils. Letters are from Bruce E. Duke of Hotchkiss; Evelyn H. Hosmer, secretary for D.U. Chancellor W.J. Walsh regarding fossils near Wray; and E.C. Bell of Ontario, California describing animal and human fossils found near Brandon, Colorado. Additional material in this collection includes copies of publications and clippings authored by Renaud. Titles of some of the published works dated 1928 include: Antiquity of Man in North America, published in Anthropologie, and Indians of Colorado, a 20 page pamphlet published by the University of Colorado. There are also several clippings dated 1983 from the Colorado Preservation Office about Renaud's surveys of the eastern Colorado plains and the 1973 archaeological excavations at the Ken Caryl Ranch.

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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Renaud, E. B. (Etienne Bernardeau), 1880-1973

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Etienne B. Renaud (1880-1973) served as faculty member of University of Denver Dept. of Anthropology from 1920-1948. Renaud influenced archeaological survey methods describing one of the first attempts at systematic excavation in the American Southwest. In 1929 he directed a field expedition for the Colorado Museum of Natural History. He conducted archaeological surveys of the American plains area including Eastern Colorado, 1930-1933; Eastern Wyoming, 1931; Western Nebraska, 1933; Northeast New...