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Article: Emil W. Haury and Carl O. Sauer in Sonora.(archaeology )
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- Journal of the Southwest
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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On March 23, 1946 Emil Haury and Carl Sauer traveled south together from Tucson into Sonora, crossing the border at Naco in an Arizona State Museum truck. Their ten days of roaming as far south as Chinobampo and Alamos is nicely summarized by Robert C. West in the following piece with accompanying map. I have reviewed the relatively short field notes of the trip by both men as well as the more extensive correspondence (close to 60 letters) between the two friends and professional colleagues before and for several years following their excursion.
Sauer, already a well-known geographer and prolific writer, had come through Tucson on a number of occasions, usually en ...