Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Flood Control Act of 1944 and the Growth of American Archaeology - Kimball M. Banks and Jon S. Czaplicki -- Part I: The National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution -- 2. The National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution: Partners in Salvage Archaeology - Thomas D. Thiessen, Deborah Hull-Walski, and Lynn M. Snyder -- Part II: The RBS and IASP Programs -- 3. The Lincoln Office and the Upper Missouri River Basin - W. Raymond Wood -- 4. Archaeological "Appraisals" of Twenty Stream Basins in California: Investigations by the Smithsonian Institution's River Basin Surveys, 1947-1951 - Michael J. Moratto and Francis A. Riddell -- 5. The River Basin Surveys in the Columbia Plateau - R. Lee Lyman -- 6. Archaeological Salvage at Texas Reservoir Contruction Projects: 1945-1969 - Edward B. Jelks -- 7. Federal Archaeology in the Southeast - Richard A. Krause -- 8. Contributions of the Washington Office to the Archaeology of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions - Susan C. Prezzano -- 9. Upper Colorado River Archaeological Salvage Projects - Don D. Fowler -- Part III: The RBS and IASP Impacts on American Archaeology -- 10. Contributions to Physical Anthropology by the Smithsonian Institution's River Basin Surveys - Vanessa A. Mirro -- 11. Missouri Basin Projects and the Emergence of Historical Archaeology on the Great Plains - William B. Lees -- 12. Paleontological Significance of the Missouri River Basin Surveys - John W. Hoganson -- 13. Women in Reservoir Salvage Archaeology - Ruthann Knudson -- 14. The Missouri River: The Backbone to Survival - Gerard Baker - Yellow Wolf -- 15. Flapping Tents, Outhouses, Hail Storms, and Running for Water: An Insider's View of the Life in Interagency Archeological Salvage Program Field Camps, 1950's-1970s - David Mayer Gradwohl.

16. From RBS to CRM: Late Twentieth-Century Developments in American Archaeology - Francis P. McManamon -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.