Excerpt from An Introduction to Kansas Archeology
As with so many other programs Of the time, completion Of this one was made impossible during the war years. Both fieldwork and writ ing came to a halt, the latter to be resumed in 1945. Shortly came further interruption when the Smithsonian Institution entered into an agreement with the National Park Service to participate in the archeological salvage work linked with the post-war Federal water control program. The writer was detailed by the National Museum for four summers and intermittently otherwise to the newly organized River Basin Surveys and was assigned the task Of organizing and setting in motion the salvage program in the Missouri Basin. Not until 1950 was there again opportunity for resuming the Kansas report.
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