Journeys West: Jane and Julian Steward and Their Guides

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Notes Abbreviations alk A. L. Kroeber Papers, mss c-b 925, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley bae Bureau of American Ethnology, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington dc ckp Charles Kelly Papers, mss b 144, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City dar Department of Anthropology Records, cu-23, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley ecm Eastern California Museum Collections, Independence, California icr Indian Census Rolls, 1885–1940. Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75, National Archives, Washington dc jhs Julian H. Steward Papers, 1842–1980, Record series 15/2/21, University of Illinois Archives, Urbana, Illinois lds Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah rhl Robert Harry Lowie Papers, mss c-b 927, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley rvc Ralph V. Chamberlin Papers, 1890–1969, Accn 907, Manuscript Division, Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City rwc Ramona Wilcox Cannon Papers, 1863–1994, Accn 1862, Manuscript Division, Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City Introduction: Remembering 1. John C. Frémont (1813–1890) named the Great Basin in 1844 (Cline, Exploring the Great Basin, 215). 2. The Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of American Ethnology published Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups in 1938. The University of Utah 324 notes to pages xviii–6 Press reprinted it about thirty years later. Steward—like some who cited the book in print—sometimes left out a word or reversed words in the title. 3. Steward, Basin-Plateau, 54, 72. 4. Steward, Basin-Plateau, plates 1 and 2. 5. Steward, Basin-Plateau, 7. 6. Muir, My First Summer, 56, 86; Walton, Western Times and Water Wars, 17. On John Muir (1838–1914), see Worster, A Passion for Nature. I use the term “wild lands” for land that may be inhabited but that has no permanent settlements, roads, herds of domesticated animals, or industrial activity such as mining. 7. Kerns, Scenes from the High Desert; Steward, Theory of Culture Change, 30–42. 8. Although Julian Steward included Utes in his study, he reconstructed their past primarily by using written sources, not by working with Ute elders (see chapter 8). Jane Steward left Utah before he located Goshute informants (see chapter 10). 9. On the American West’s history of conquest and colonialism, see Limerick , Legacy of Conquest. 10. Jane Cannon Steward (1908–1988) died in Honolulu sixteen years after the death of Julian Steward (1902–1972). 11. Morgan and Wheat, Jedediah Smith and His Maps, 16; Fox, The Void, the Grid, and the Sign, 13; McPhee, Basin and Range; Harney, The Way It Is, 136; Crum, The Road on Which We Came, 1. 1. Going There 1. Kerns, Scenes from the High Desert, 119, 145. 2. Jane C. Steward to Joseph J. Cannon, Feb. 20, 1934, rwc Box 57; Jane C. Steward to Elizabeth Cannon, n.d. [mid-March, 1934], rwc Box 59; Grant Cannon to Joseph J. Cannon and family, n.d. [ca. 1934–1935], rwc Box 58; Kerns, Scenes from the High Desert, 152. 3. Kerns, Scenes from the High Desert, 73, 130–31; Jane C. and Julian H. Steward to Joseph J. Cannon, July 3, 1936, rwc Box 57. 4. Jane C. Steward interview; Dorothy B. Nyswander interview. 5. Jane Cannon to Grant Cannon, Aug. 15, 1928, rwc Box 58; “Jane Cannon Steward,” n.d. [ca. 1978], rwc Box 57. 6. Joseph J. Cannon to Jane C. Steward, Nov. 20, 1933, rwc Box 57. 7. Jane C. Steward to Ramona W. Cannon, n.d. [1934], rwc Box 57. 325 notes to pages 6–16 8. Kerns, Scenes from the High Desert, 91–92, 97–99; Liljeblad and Fowler, “Owens Valley Paiute,” 413. 9. Steward, Basin-Plateau, 8. 10. Julian H. Steward to Alfred L. Kroeber, July 26, 1928, dar; Kerns, Scenes from the High Desert, 98–99. 11. Jane C. Steward interview. 12. See Steward, “Diffusion and Independent Invention,” for his views on diffusion. 13. Steward, “Economic and Social Basis of Primitive Bands,” 333; Kerns, Scenes from the High Desert, 160–62. Nearly twenty years later, Steward published a slightly revised version of his 1936 essay; he divided it into two chapters, one on the patrilineal band and the other on the composite band (Theory of Culture Change, 122– 50). He retained the phrase “innate male dominance” (125). See Steward, Theory of Culture Change, 5–6, 87–97, for more on culture types. 14. Steward...