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Fred Blackburn was born on August 7, 1950 in Telluride, Colorado, United States of a ski lift manager Keith Blackburn and Sylvia Pangrazi.
Fred Blackburn
Fred Blackburn acquired Bachelor of Science degree after graduation from Fort Lewis College in 1972.
Fred Blackburn acquired Bachelor of Science degree after graduation from Fort Lewis College in 1972.
(The tortuous canyon country of southeastern Utah conceals...)
The tortuous canyon country of southeastern Utah conceals thousands of archaeological sites, ancient homes of the ancestors of today's Southwest Indian peoples. Late in the nineteenth century, adventurous cowboy-archaeologists made the first forays into the canyons in search of the material remains of these prehistoric cultures. Rancher Richard Wetherill (best known as the "discoverer" of Mesa Verde's Cliff Palace) and his brothers; entrepreneurs Charles McLoyd and Charles Cary Graham; and numerous other adventurers, scholars, preachers, and businessmen mounted expeditions into the area now known as Grand Gulch. With varying degrees of scientific rigor, they mapped and dug the canyon's rich archaeological sites, removing large numbers of artifacts and burial goods to exhibit or sell back home-whether "home" was Durango, Chicago, New York, or Helsinki. During a trip in the winter of 1893-94, Richard Wetherill unearthed convincing proof that a previously unrecognized group of people had lived in Grand Gulch before the so-called Anasazi, or Cliff Dwellers. Wetherill named these people the "Basket Makers" and inaugurated a new era of understanding of the region's prehistoric past. Almost one hundred years later, the modern-day adventure that became known as the Wetherill-Grand Gulch Research Project began. Intrigued by the poorly documented history of the Gulch, a group of avocational archaeologists launched a grassroots effort to recover that history and locate the many artifacts that had been extracted from southeastern Utah's arid soil. The Gulch, they found, contained its own invaluable clues in the form of dated signatures left on canyon walls by the Wetherills and others as they made their way from site to site. An effort to track the original explorers in the Gulch ultimately led the team to Chicago's Field Museum and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In this book, Fred M. Blackburn and Ray A. Williamson tell the two intertwined stories of the early archaeological expeditions into Grand Gulch and the Wetherill-Grand Gulch Research Project. In the process, they describe what we now know about Basketmaker culture and present a stirring plea for the preservation of our nation's priceless archaeological heritage. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0933452470/?tag=2022091-20
1997
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1887805249/?tag=2022091-20
2006
educator historian writer ranger
Fred Blackburn was born on August 7, 1950 in Telluride, Colorado, United States of a ski lift manager Keith Blackburn and Sylvia Pangrazi.
Fred Blackburn acquired Bachelor of Science degree after graduation from Fort Lewis College in 1972. In 1991 he passed for a Teaching Certificate.
Fred Blackburn started his career after graduation at the Bureau of Land Management, Monticello, Utah in 1974. He began as a ranger but later became a chief ranger and held this position until 1979. After that he decided to choose archeological direction for his further professional development and joined Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado as an interpretive guide. He served there since 1979 up to 1981. After that his experience and competence made it possible for him to become a self-employed interpreter, educator, guide, and researcher which led to becoming a writer and publishing his first book An Approach to Vandalism of Archaeological Resources (together with Ray Williamson) in 1990. He also became a full-involved member of Cortez Historic Board in 1998. Blackburn also often acts as a consultant to private and public schools.
(The tortuous canyon country of southeastern Utah conceals...)
1997
Fred Blackburn married Becky Lynn Brock first but they divorced in 1983. From this marriage, he has a daughter Floss and a son Forrest. His second marriage was to Victoria Atkins and took place on November 26, 1988. They have two more children: a daughter named Julianna and a son called Lucas.
Fred Blackburn and Becky Lynn Brock divorced in 1983.
Daughter from the first marriage.
Son from the first marriage.
Daughter from the second marriage.
Son from the second marriage.
Fred Blackburn and Ray Williamson co-authored at least two books together.
