Bob, why were there never as many archeologists in the Denver Service Center?
Also, they seem to have played a different role than historians. Bob: I suppose part of it is the parochialism of archeology. But the Denver Service Center did have archeologists. In my time I don’t remember anyone other than Will Logan. Will did play principally a management and planning role similar to what I have been saying the historians should have played. I think the explanation is to be found in the rise, contemporaneously, of the archeological centers. Archeological research and the related professional services to management came out of the archeological centers. I always felt strongly that the park planning services ought to come from archeologists in the Denver Service Center, but that was a hard case to make when archeological centers already existed. They existed because this got to be a political thing with Hartzog. He saw political advantages in having archeological centers tied in with universities. This was a Connally ideal also. I think he may have sold it to Hartzog
