How is it possible that I did not know about Dutton's Dirty Diggers and their excellent adventures in the American Southwest? Why didn't I get to go on an Archaeological Mobile Camp when I was a teenager? I knew nothing about this fascinating chapter of southwestern archaeology, Dr. Bertha Dutton, or the more than two hundred senior girl scouts who used the road less traveled to learn about the archaeology, cultures, and environment of the magnificent Southwest.
Bertha P. Dutton, an archaeologist and ethnologist, was truly a giant and an unsung heroine of archaeology, cultural outreach, and public education in the years when America was emerging from World War II amidst great societal changes. Catherine Fowler's Dutton's Dirty Diggers is a fine tribute to Dutton, who planned and led expeditions of teenage girls into remote regions of the Southwest for eleven years. In the later years of the program, she...
