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PLEISTOCENE STUDIES IN SOUTHERN NEVADA In Septem ber, 1966, H erschel C utler Smith died suddenly in Los A ngeles. In his 59 years of life , he was many th in g s—g e o lo g ist, engineer, te a c h e r, p ilo t. He was a builder by vocation and an arch aeo lo g ist by av o catio n—one of a scarce breed, a p ro fessio n al nonp ro fe ssio n a l. This most rem arkable man had a boundless capacity for liv in g , and the rare ab ility to coax dream s into re a lity . To him goes the credit for obtaining sk illed p erso n n el, the m echanical re so u rc e s, and the m aintenance and su sten an ce for them which made p o ssib le the Tule Springs Expedition, the la rg e st in terd iscip lin ary in v estig atio n of a site ever com pleted in the U nited S ta te s. He w as not an ordinary man, y et he was much more than ju st a man of many ta le n ts . H ersch w as a frien d . His v isio n , foresight and loyalty were the p la n s, the foundation, the very stuff from which the expedition w as b u ilt. It is with a sen se of lo ss and sad n ess th at th is p u b licatio n , the final phase of the expedition he fo stered , must be dedicated not to the man, but to his memory. iv
