What do you think of historic surveys? For one thing, if something is that historic, people would probably know it’s there. If the object is to come up with a uniform means of “interpretation,” I ask how many people do you ever see interacting with those historic signs and pedestals? I’ve stopped to read a couple, but I don’t think I’ve seen anybody else do it. Signs are signs, and were they private-sector, they would obsturb viewshed, blocking up the scenery, breaking my mind, but I guess they add historicity if we stretch our imagination. In these days of unmarked streets and missing highway signs, shouldn’t our historic tours be all in the Smartphones anyway?
by Leslee Kulba
Wild West blogger