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information. Many of the informants felt that they should have been given ,
substantially more notice. Notwithstanding this view, an immediate and con-
certed effort was made by the project ethnographer upon the award of the
contract to fulfill this portion of the program. Another major problem
was that much ethnographic data exists in an unpublished and highly dis-
organized form. It would have taken an inordinate amount of time to properly
review and assess such data. The project ethnographer responded to these
problems by expending more travel, time, and total effort than what was
provided for by the contract.

In following the traditional routes of historical methodology, the major
problem confronting the research was time. The western Mojave has seen a
century and a half of occupation by literate societies that have recorded
their activity in a variety of ways. Records range from the classical accounts
of trails and old mines to county archives, papers of private ranching societies,
and water companies, to music, art, local informants, and railroad and mining
personnel who no longer live in the area. Research of the private and public
papers affecting the study zone can only be pointed to in this survey. The
data retrievable from the sites inventoried are, of course, another component
of the whole. The historian geared the report to the subject "Resources
Overview," while acknowledging the potential information which the work of
future scholars could produce

These methodological responses were all made in a concerted effort to
provide as comprehensive and informative a document as possible given the
scope and time alloted for the project.

PROJECT PERSONNEL, PERSONNEL DEPLOYMENT, ASPECTS OF FIELD DATA COLLECTION ,
SYNTHESIS AND REPORT PRODUCTION

The following scholars and researchers directly participated on this
project: Dr. Gary Stickel, Dr. Lois Weinman- Roberts , Mr. Jerry Howard,
Mr. Alan Curl, Dr. Rainer Berger, and Dr. Pare Hopa. In addition, the pro-
ject had the following special consultants: Prof. Franklin Fenenga, Dr. Gerald
Smith, and Mr. Roger Robinson.

These team members had the following tasks on the program: for prehistoric
Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management, Dr. Gary Stickel, Mr. Jerry
Howard; for history and cultural resources management, Dr. Lois Weinman- Roberts
Mr. Alan Curl; for paleo- and present environmental analysis, Dr. Rainer Berger;
and for ethnography/ethnohistory , Dr. Pare Hopa. The consultants provided the
following areas of expertise: Prof. Franklin Fenenga, historical archaeology/
general prehistory; Dr. General Smith, general archaeology and ethnology of
the greater Barstow sector of the study area; and Mr. Roger Robinson for
general archaeology and ethnology of the Antelope Valley sector of the study
area.