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JOSHUA TREE
Country Nodes An Anthropological Evaluation of William Keys' Desert Queen Ranch, Joshua Tree National Monument, California |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Importance and Integrity
State or local importance
Integrity
Chapter 2: Pattern and process
Ethnohistorical treatment of Keys' Ranch and environs
1870-1894: Initial settlement, cattle grazing and small scale mining
1894-1917: The years of investment—competition and conflict among
cattlemen and miners
1918-1929: The years of entrenchment—cattlemen and homesteaders,
scavengers and pensioners
1930-1943: Boomtown during hard times
1943-1969: From prisoner to "pioneer's pioneer"
Summary
Chapter 3: Important persons and distinctive architecture
Chapter 4: Acquisition of important information
Resources
Cultural values
Adverse effect of loss of Keys' Ranch
Chapter 5: Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix B: Keys' Ranch as a prehistoric resource, by Thomas F. King
ILLUSTRATIONS
Map 2: Routes into vicinity of Keys' Ranch, 1870 - 1894
Map 3: Grazing areas and cattle drives, 1870 - 1894
Map 4: Mines and mining activities, 1870 - 1894
Map 5: Mines and mining activities, 1894 - 1917
Map 6: Zones of tension, 1894 - 1917
Map 7: Effective one-day ranges, 1894 - 1917
Map 8: Commercial routes into Keys' Ranch vicinity, 1895 - 1902
Map 9: Livestock watering places, 1894 - 1917
Map 10: Properties pioneered by others and eventually claimed by William Keys
Map 11: Keys' roads, claims, operations and collecting loci
Map 12: Mines operating between 1930 and 1943
TABLES
Table 2: Properties pioneered by others and eventually claimed by William Keys
Table 3: Properties claimed, worked or collected from by Keys
Table 4: Mines operating between 1930 and 1943
Table 5: Contents of "quarry area" near ranch house
Table 6: Gross classes of data and their uses
Table 7: National Register nominees, nominees and near-nominees in the California Desert
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