Acknowledgments

Development of the electronic field trips was partially supported by a State Historical Fund grant from the Colorado Historical Society and by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center Ian Thompson Fellowship.

The two line-drawn illustrations of ancestral Puebloans that appear in Trip 1 are used courtesy of the Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colorado. Photographs were contributed by the Colorado Historical Society (early photo of Castle Rock, under "Historic Exploration," Trip 2, and the Hayden Survey party, Trip 2), the Mancos Valley Visitor Center and Museum (miners, Trip 2), the Pikes Peak Library District (historic photo of Castle Rock, beginning of Trip 2), and Montezuma County residents Fred Harden (McElmo homestead and Battle Rock schoolhouse, Trip 2) and Alma Stiles (Chief John Miller and his wife, and Chief Jack House and foremen, Trip 2).

A special thanks from the authors to all the Crow Canyon staff who have been supportive throughout this project. Rebecca Hammond gathered material facts and contributed invaluable personal insights that were incorporated into the description of Ute Mountain Ute history. Several staff members contributed to the graphics presented in this publication: Paul Ermigiotti drew the artist's rendition of Castle Rock Pueblo as it may have appeared in the 1200s; Kristin Kuckelman created the ink illustration of the rock art figures; Andrea Parkes drafted the map of the modern pueblos; and Scott Ortman provided the photograph of the square kiva. Mary Etzkorn copy edited the text. Louise Schmidlap helped with the design and final edits on the Web page. Special acknowledgment is due Kristin Kuckelman and Ricky Lightfoot for the years of Castle Rock fieldwork, analysis, research, and interpretations that provided much of the information presented in this publication. And finally, thanks to Elaine Davis, Tracy Farmer, Dan Ihnot, and Lew Matis for their encouragement and feedback, and to Crow Canyon's Native American advisory group for their thoughtful review of the text.