![]() ![]() His knowledge of specific animal behaviors gave insight to his studies of the Paleoindians of the northern plains as he sought to understand how their stone tools were used most effectively for hunting and how bison jumps, mammoth kills, and sheep traps actually worked. But his practical and observational experience around both domestic and wild animals proved a valuable asset to his research. ![]() Herding cattle, chopping watering holes in sub-zero weather, and guiding hunters in the fall were very different than teaching classes, performing laboratory work, and attending faculty and committee meetings in air-conditioned buildings. In this memoir, Frison shares his life’s work and his atypical journey from rancher to professor and archaeologist. Eventually, this interest prompted him to change his life’s course at age thirty-seven. The wealth of prehistoric artifacts on the ranch caught his attention. His father’s accidental death meant that Frison was raised by his grandparents, thus experiencing life on a ranch instead of the small town childhood he otherwise would have had. Sometimes childhood events can shape a person’s destiny. ![]()
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