Table Of ContentHistoric gold and silver camps of the West
and Alaska, where echoes of the past still
linger.
• Coldfoot Gold Camp, Alaska
• Rochester Gold Camp, Nevada
• South Pass City Historic Mining District
including Miner’s Delight, Wyoming
• Spanish Gulch Mining District, Oregon
• Alpine Loop National Back Country
Byway, Colorado
Spectacular Indian pueblos of the
• Garnet Ghost Town, Montana
4-Corners Southwest, where prehistoric
farmers pushed back the hostile desert.
• Anasazi Heritage Center Escalante
Ruins Complex, Colorado
On the vast expanse of the public lands in the pioneers. Evidence of their stuggles preserved
• Grand Gulch Archaeological District,
American West and Alaska lie clues to our today teach us of their triumphs, tragedies Utah
country’s past, like pages in a book of human and day-to-day life. In turn, we gain insight • Chama Gateway Pueblos, New Mexico
history that spans more than 10,000 years. into solving the problems of today. • Perry Mesa Pueblo Sites, Arizona
• Lowry Ruins National Historic
Landmark, Colorado
The cultural resources found on public lands The cultural legacies that blanket the nation’s
embody the dreams and lives of countless public lands are time markers from another
generations of Americans, such as ancient and age. Some are buried by centuries of sand and
recent hunters and gatherers, settlers and dirt, while others stand in silent testimony to Military sites from the “Old West” to
World War II, where purpose and resolve
farmers, miners and hopeful immigrant another time.
helped forge the nation.
Mysterious rock carvings and giant ground
Photo by; Richard H. Stewart ©National Geographic Society • Fort Egbert National Historic
figures crafted by prehistoric artists in the
Landmark, Alaska
sun-baked deserts of the West.
• Patton’s Camps, California
• Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, • Boots and Saddles Forts, New Mexico
New Mexico • Santa Cruz de Terrenate Spanish
• Rochester Muddy Creek Petroglyph Presidio, San Pedro Riparian National
Site, Utah Conservation Area, Arizona
• Little Black Mountain Petroglyph Site, • Cantonment Reno, Wyoming
Arizona
• Hickison Summit Petroglyph Site,
Nevada
• Wees Bar Petroglyph Site, Birds of Prey
Conservation Area, Idaho
• Whoopup Canyon Petroglyph Site,
Weather-worn cabins and homesteads,
Wyoming
• Blythe Intaglios, California where pioneer farmers and settlers sunk
• Carrizo Plain Pictograph Site, new roots.
California Frontier trails and railroad traces winding • Ward Ranch Site, New Mexico
• Canon Pintado Historic District,
into history and legend. • Black Pine Valley Homesteads, Idaho
Colorado
• Rogue River Ranch and Whiskey Creek
• Flagstaff Hill and Keeney Pass Trail
Cabin, Oregon
Sites, Oregon
• Fort Benton to James Kipp Recreation
• Iditarod National Historic Trail, Alaska
Area Float Trip, Montana
• Pony Express Trail, Utah and Nevada
• Riddle Brothers Historic Ranch District,
• Spanish Trail-Old Mormon Road,
Oregon
Nevada Prehistoric campsites, where remains left
• John Jarvie of Brown’s Park, Utah
• Honeymoon Trail and Beale Wagon by early Americans proclaim the skills of
Road, Arizona
ancient cultures.
• Central Pacific Railroad Grade, Utah
• Emigrant Trails of Southern Idaho • Red Rocks Recreation Site, Nevada
• Oregon National Historic Trail, ^ • Mack Canyon Archaeological District,
Wyoming Oregon
• Bizz Johnson Logging Railroad Trail, • Murray Springs Clovis Site, San Pedro
California Riparian National Conservation Area,
• Gold Belt Tour National Back Country Arizona
Byway, Colorado • Baker Fremont Site, Nevada
• Lewis and Clark Trail, Montana • Fossil Falls Area of Critical
Environmental Concern, California
• Lower Salmon River Sites, Idaho
• Hanson Folsom Site, Wyoming
• Shelter Cove, King Range National
Ethnic heritage sites, where the rich fabric
Conservation Area, California
of America’s multi-cultural heritage was • Henry Smith Buffalo Jump Site,
woven. Montana
• Chief Tendoy Cemetery Site, Idaho • Warner Wetlands Area, Oregon
• Chinese Mining Sites, Idaho
• Lake Fork Italian Railroad Construc¬
tion Camp, Colorado
• Navajo Pueblitos, New Mexico
Ancient caves and campsites on Ice Age
shorelines where time-forgotten hunters
lived in a far-different world.
• Hidden Cave and Grimes Point Sites,
Nevada
• Tangle Lakes Archaeological District,
Alaska
• Hogup Cave, Utah
• Catlow Cave, Oregon
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Bureau of Land Management
Manages 270 million acres of public lands in the West and what we learn about past people and how they adapted to their
Alaska. These lands contain the federal government’s largest, world provides vital information to us today—information
most varied, and scientifically important body of cultural that helps us learn strategies to cope with such things as global
resources. climate changes.
The vcuiety of cultural resources on BLM lands is unparalleled, Cultural sites have given America artistic and architectural in¬
including thousands of historic and prehistoric sites, some spiration, the results of which can be seen in many buildings of
more than 10,000 years old. modern cities.
Cultural resources, anything that shows evidence of having Unravelling the mysteries of our country’s unique heritage
been made, used, or altered by humans, range from ancient helps us understand the present and wisely plan for the future.
Indian ruins to historic ghost towns, and from small scatters of
From arid deserts to lush forests, to wind swept tundra, the A4
arrowheads or stone tools to abandoned cross-country wagon
diversity of BLM’s lands provide countless opportunities to A484
trails and World War II remains.
learn about and enjoy our nation’s past! 1995
From the cultural resources discovered, protected and studied.
