Exploring the Edges of Texas - In the course of writing their book, Walt and Isabel Davis read the report of a 1962 archeological excavation that revealed a little-known triangular trade relationship between French traders, Caddo hunters, and Comanche and Kiowa horsemen linking the southern Great Plains with Europe via the Red River.  Excavation and interpretation of the Gilbert Site involved collaboration between archeologists and historians both professional and avocational. 

Their work proved to be a landmark in Texas archeology and the origin of the annual Texas Archeological Field School, now 48 years old.  This lecture will tell the story of the gun, horse, and deer hide trade network and the unusual partnership that brought that story to light 250 years later.

Walt Davis worked at the Dallas Museum of Natural History for 25 years and was director of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum for 13 years.  He has a BA in zoology from the University of Texas and MS in wildlife science from Texas A&M. 

More info: exploringtheedgesoftexas.com

Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU.

Admissions is free, all donations welcome.

For more information call Midwestern State University’s

Center for Continuing Education at (940) 397-4756