GILA CLIFF DWELLINGS An Administrative History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

INTRODUCTION

Summary: Significance of Cultural Resources
Summary: History of Tenure and Development
Summary: Setting

CHAPTER I: History of Tenure and Development until 1933

CHAPTER II: History of Tenure and Development from 1933 until 1955

CHAPTER III: History of Tenure and Development from 1955 until 1991

CHAPTER IV: History of Archeology at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument until 1962

CHAPTER V: History of Archeology at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument from 1962 until 1991

CHAPTER VI: Stabilization at Gila Cliff Dwellings

CHAPTER VII: Interpretation and Cultural Resource Management

CHAPTER VIII: Natural Resources Management and Threats to the Monument

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDIX A: Enabling Legislation

Executive Order
Boundary
Proclamation 3467
Public Land Order 2655

APPENDIX B: Interagency Agreements

Memorandum of Agreement Between the National Park Service and the Forest Service
Supplement to Memorandum of Agreement Between the National Park Service and the Forest Service
Cooperative Agreement Between the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

APPENDIX C: Interagency Agreements

Assignment Agreement
Employee Assignment Agreement

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1 Map of caves sheltering Gila Cliff Dwellings
Figure 2a 2b Views of the prehistoric architecture at Gila Cliff Dwellings
Figure 3 Boundary map of Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Figure 4 Sketches made at Gila Cliff Dwellings by Adolph Bandelier in early 1884
Figure 5 Map from 1884 government survey of the area that comprises the present Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Figure 6 Early visitor to Gila Cliff Dwellings
Figure 7 A view of the road descending the north slope of Copperas Mountain to the Gila River
Figure 8 Map of prehistoric cultural sites drawn by "Doc" Campbell in 1955
Figure 9a Figure 9b Custodian "Doc" Campbell and the monument's first contact station
Figure 10a Figure 10b Superintendent James Sleznick, and the monument's improved contact station
Figure 11 Drawings of Gila Cliff Dwellings as it appeared to Adolph Bandelier and to Lieutenant Sands in the mid-1880s
Figure 13 Map of Gila Cliff Dwellings keyed to a matrix of room features
Figure 15 Stabilization and egress improvements at the cliff site

DEDICATION