Horn is Park Archeologist for Grand Canyon National Park and been an archeologist at the park since 1995. Amy received her MA in Anthropology (emphasis Archaeology) from Northern Arizona University in 1997.
Presentation Abstract...
Stories Among the Aspen: Running Cattle on the North Rim:
Today's visitors don't often consider that the North Rim's history includes thousands of cattle grazing on summer pasture. But before tourists discovered the magnificent views from Grand Canyon's North Rim, cowboys found the North Kaibab's lush pastures. Over the past decade, Grand Canyon National Park archeologists have discovered numerous archeological sites from the ranching history of Grand Canyon's North Rim. With the creation of the Grand Canyon Game Preserve and Grand Canyon National Park, grazing was rapidly phased out. But aspen dendroglyphs dating to the 1890s and early 1900s trace the use by early Arizona Strip settlers. Fragments of fences show us how the Kaibab Plateau was first divided into two big ranges and how, as tourists reached the North Rim, buffalo were proposed for the Walhalla Plateau. Water was managed through spring improvements and fences around sinkholes and "lakes". The archeological record substantiates, enhances, occasionally contradicts; but always brings to life the written record of ranching on the North Rim.