Career
He took part in excavations at the "Placerias Quarry", in 1930 and the forty Shonisaurus skeleton discoveries of the 1960s, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Camp was also an important bibliographer and historian of Western America. This aspect of his career is represented most notably by two works.
The first is his biography of James Clyman, which Bernard De Voto called "one of the half-dozen classics in the field" The second work was the third edition of The Plains and the Rockies, published in 1953, which Camp annotated heavily.
He was the 1970 recipient of the California Historical Society"s Henry Raup Wagner Memorial Award. The theropod Camposaurus was named in Camp"s honour in 1998.