Mark E Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 159113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark E Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark E |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Utah University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4691-7469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
An incised travertine artifact from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
The Barnes Stone is an incised stone artifact found at the base of a roadcut along Red Springs Draw in the southern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming by Jeb Barnes, an avocational archaeologist from Thermopolis, Wyoming. We initially and erroneously identified this artifact as a modified piece of mammoth ivory. In this paper, we not only correct that identification but also report on the results of fieldwork and radiocarbon dating at the find locality, an…
A River Again
This article details the successful campaign to decommission two hydroelectric plants and a dam on Fossil Creek in Arizona—a rare perennial stream in the Southwest. Beginning in 1991, American Rivers, the Sierra Club, and community service groups utilized the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s recommissioning process to force the removal of the dam and plants. They faced opposition from the plants’ owner, the historical community, and citizen…
These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912
Maurice Crandall's new book exposes one of the seeming paradoxes of Indigenous peoples' existence in the United States: their demands for civil rights and inclusion and their desire for separateness and tribal sovereignty. In this fine study, he correctly challenges traditional narratives about Indigenous electorates that follow a trajectory from exclusion to the “winning” of full voting rights in the twentieth century. He argues that in terms of…
Being and Becoming Ute: The Story of American Indian People
How does a loosely aligned cultural group of native peoples “become” a modern, indigenous nation, or in the case of the Utes, three separate, reservation-based recognized tribes? This question guides Sondra G. Jones's sweeping history of the Ute people. The author, an adjunct professor of history at the University of Utah, is the first scholar to attempt to create a single history of this aboriginal people whose homelands encompassed the Great Ba…
The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
Book Review| April 01 2017 The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity. By Gregory D. Smithers. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. 358 pp. Glossary of names, notes, and index. $40 (cloth). Mark E. Miller Mark E. Miller Southern Utah University Mark E. Miller is Professor of History at Southern Utah University. H…
Stock raising and winter sheep camps in south-central Wyoming (1880–1957): An ethnoarchaeological example
Winter sheep camp locations on one ranch in south-central Wyoming are strongly influenced by particular landscape and topographic attributes. A patterned distribution of camps is suggested from both archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence. Sheep camps are one of the most ubiquitous archaeological sites in the region and offer valuable insights into the transhumant settlement pattern of the nineteenth and early twentieth century sheep industry. …
Middle Plains Archaic Bison Hunting in Southcentral Wyoming: Revisiting the Scoggin Site (48CR304)
PLAINS ANTHROPOLOGISTJournal of the Plains Anthropological SocietyVolume 62 Number 244 November 2017Middle Plains Archaic Bison Hunting in Southcentral Wyoming: Revisiting the Scoggin SiteEdite
In search of the Fraeb battlefield and trading post, August 1841
During the late 1830s and early 1840s, trading posts in Wyoming were relocating to major waterways and trail systems to capture the burgeoning indigenous bison robe and overland Euroamerican emigrant trade. Recent research discovered references to a “Fraeb's trading post” operating in southern Wyoming during the 1830s. Wyoming cultural records also contain a site form for 48CR1184, the “Bridger and Fraeb trading post,” located in south-central Wy…
L’art mobilier paléoindien du Wyoming (États‐Unis)
Les premiers chercheurs à avoir étudié l’art rupestre du Wyoming ne mesuraient pas la durée d’occupation de la région. David Gebbard créa la première chronologie des manifestations artistiques pour le Wyoming, une séquence relative de quatre styles sur la base des superpositions. Plus récemment, Ron Dorn, Julie Francis et Larry Loendorf ont publié une chronologie à partir de dates radiométriques, des proportions de cation et de la microlamination…
Paleoindian Portable Art from Wyoming (USA)
Paleoindian portable art, while sparse, has been reported from several Wyoming localities, both dated and undated, and with good archaeological provenience or no established provenience. Additional examples have been recovered from many later Holocene sites. Media for these art objects include sandstone, steatite, bison bone, and mammoth ivory. Techniques ranged from light incision and deep scoring to pecking, and motifs ranged from abstract to a…
Note from the President
Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity
In Native Acts Joanne Barker makes a compelling argument that native peoples are only “seen” and recognized as “authentic” within legal structures, racialized discourses, and social constructs that reinforce and reify national narratives and existing U.S. power structures to maintain dependent colonial relations with aboriginal nations. Using thought-provoking case studies, the work illuminates how natives navigate those parameters and explores h…
Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes
University of Utah historian W. Paul Reeve has written an intriguing and engaging monograph examining the dynamic interchange between Mormons, miners, and Southern Paiutes along the Great Basin's southern rim. Broadly covering the last four decades of the nineteenth century, Reeves focuses his lens most closely on southwestern Utah and southeastern Nevada during the turbulent 1860s and 1870s when the clash of cultures reached its zenith. Paiutes,…
We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community
Martha Harroun Foster's study of Montana's multiracial Métis reveals that groups in the United States have long struggled for recognition of their aboriginal heritage. We Know Who We Are joins a growing body of literature that seeks to unravel the complexities of ethnic identity in plural societies, a highly emotional and controversial issue. Foster is particularly intrigued with how a group of people with Indian and European ancestry, which lack…
Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir
Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir Get access Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir. By Gatewood Charles B.. Edited and additional text by Kraft Louis. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xxxvii + 283 pp. Illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95; £30.50.) Mark Edwin Miller Mark Edwin Miller Southern Utah University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western…
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Minister to the Cherokees: A Civil War Autobiography
The Trappers Point Site (48SU1006): Early Archaic Adaptations and Pronghorn Procurement in the Upper Green River Basin, Wyoming
The Trappers Point site is a stratified Early Archaic site near Pinedale, WYoming, containing three intact cultural components (strata III, V, VII) ranging in age from 7880-4690 radiocarbon years before present (RCYBP). Pronghorn remains are the most common elements and they indicate a spring season of use for the middle of the three occupations. Comparisons of skeletal morphology and behavior between prehistoric and modern pronghorn populations …
Key Issues in Archaeological Collections Management
Effects of Arctic Alaska Oil Development on Brant and Snow Geese
Black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) and lesser snow geese (Chen c. caerulescens) breeding in and near arctic Alaska oil fields could be affected by oil development actions such as releases of contaminants, alteration of tundra surfaces, creation of impoundments, and human activities. These actions could affect geese directly (e.g., through oil spills) or indirectly (e.g., by altering food supplies or predator populations). Studies to date ind…
Exploring the Relationship Between Inpatient Facility and Physician Services
OBJECTIVES: Medicare hospitalizations involve both facility and physician services. Although several studies analyze hospital-level variations in Medicare inpatient facility and inpatient physician services per admission, few studies directly explore the relationship between these services. Theoretically, inpatient facility and physician services may be complements or substitutes. That is, an increase in facility services may lead to an increase …
The Impact of Practicing in Multiple Hospitals on Physician Profiles
Although physicians are all too familiar with the psychologic impact of having multiple responsibilities, the associated impact on practice styles has not been examined systematically. To provide some data on the effects of "work dispersion," we examined the hypothesis that the inpatient resource use of physicians would rise with the number of hospitals in which they work. Data for 1991 from Medicare's National Claims History File were used to pr…
Who is Responsible for Care Given During the Inpatient Stay: A Preliminary Examination of Attending and Procedure Physicians in Medicare??s New Data System
Welch, H Gilbert MD, MPH; Englert, Ellen T. BA; Whitman, Doug MBA; Miller, Mark E. PhD Author Information
Differences across sexual orientation on HIV risk behaviours in injecting drug users
Injecting drug users (IDUs) play a disproportionate role in the spread of HIV given their injecting and sexual contacts, and thereby act as conduits between these risk groups. We investigated differences in risk behaviour and HIV seroprevalence in a Sydney sample of 1,245 IDUs. Significant differences were observed across sexual orientation in HIV serostatus for males, with homosexual men having the highest HIV seroprevalence rate (35%), bisexual…
State Border Crossing for Medicare Hospital Admissions
The purpose of this analysis was to determine the extent of state border crossing by Medicare beneficiaries to obtain inpatient hospital care. Estimating state border crossing for inpatient admissions is important for both policy and research reasons. From a policy perspective, Congress has mandated that the Secretary of Health and Human Services explore the establishment of Volume Performance Standards (VPS) at the subnational level. The state h…
The Political Economy of State Medicaid Policy
We develop and test a market-based model to explain variations in states' welfare medicine policy decisions. The empirical results support the model of state policy outputs, indicating that states' spending efforts for welfare medicine are most sensitive to the supply of services within their borders. We learn in addition that spending effort declines with demand for services, indicating that the states spending the highest proportions of total p…
The Trappers Point Site (48SU1006): Early Archaic Adaptations and Pronghorn Procurement in the Upper Green River Basin, Wyoming
The Trappers Point site is a stratified Early Archaic site near Pinedale, WYoming, containing three intact cultural components (strata III, V, VII) ranging in age from 7880-4690 radiocarbon years before present (RCYBP). Pronghorn remains are the most common elements and they indicate a spring season of use for the middle of the three occupations. Comparisons of skeletal morphology and behavior between prehistoric and modern pronghorn populations …
The John Gale Site Biface Cache
Eighteen chert bifaces were found cached at the John Gale campsite near Rawlins, Wyoming in 1936. They were made from source material available in or near the Green River Basin, then transported eastward. This paper describes morphological variation and manufacturing technology and proposes a production classification for the assemblage. The sample consists of what probably are Late Prehistoric age, early to middle stage bifaces which survived lo…
Key Issues in Archaeological Collections Management
A Woodland-Besant Ocurrence in Central Wyoming
A Late Prehistoric Bundle Burial From Southern Wyomingc
A Late Prehistoric bundle burial from the Stone Fence Site in south-central Wyoming produced partial skeletal remains of a middle-aged male of Shoshonean biological affinities.A total of 19 bone beads were found in the grave. Both osteological and cultural interpretations were possible from the previously undisturbed grave and its contents
A Late Prehistoric Bundle Burial From Southern Wyomingc
A Late Prehistoric bundle burial from the Stone Fence Site in south-central Wyoming produced partial skeletal remains of a middle-aged male of Shoshonean biological affinities.A total of 19 bone beads were found in the grave. Both osteological and cultural interpretations were possible from the previously undisturbed grave and its contents
A Woodland-Besant Ocurrence in Central Wyoming
The Political Economy of State Medicaid Policy
We develop and test a market-based model to explain variations in states' welfare medicine policy decisions. The empirical results support the model of state policy outputs, indicating that states' spending efforts for welfare medicine are most sensitive to the supply of services within their borders. We learn in addition that spending effort declines with demand for services, indicating that the states spending the highest proportions of total p…
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The John Gale Site Biface Cache
Eighteen chert bifaces were found cached at the John Gale campsite near Rawlins, Wyoming in 1936. They were made from source material available in or near the Green River Basin, then transported eastward. This paper describes morphological variation and manufacturing technology and proposes a production classification for the assemblage. The sample consists of what probably are Late Prehistoric age, early to middle stage bifaces which survived lo…
Differences across sexual orientation on HIV risk behaviours in injecting drug users
Injecting drug users (IDUs) play a disproportionate role in the spread of HIV given their injecting and sexual contacts, and thereby act as conduits between these risk groups. We investigated differences in risk behaviour and HIV seroprevalence in a Sydney sample of 1,245 IDUs. Significant differences were observed across sexual orientation in HIV serostatus for males, with homosexual men having the highest HIV seroprevalence rate (35%), bisexual…
State Border Crossing for Medicare Hospital Admissions
The purpose of this analysis was to determine the extent of state border crossing by Medicare beneficiaries to obtain inpatient hospital care. Estimating state border crossing for inpatient admissions is important for both policy and research reasons. From a policy perspective, Congress has mandated that the Secretary of Health and Human Services explore the establishment of Volume Performance Standards (VPS) at the subnational level. The state h…
Physician Charges in the Hospital: Exploring Episodes of Care for Controlling Volume Growth
Medicare physician payments are growing rapidly. At least 40% of the annual growth is due to volume increases. Reforms passed in 1989 include volume performance standards that attempt to control volume by linking future physician fee increases to volume growth. There is concern that defining the entire nation as the risk pool will result in an unworkable volume performance standard. One way to improve incentives is to create a separate volume per…
Who is Responsible for Care Given During the Inpatient Stay: A Preliminary Examination of Attending and Procedure Physicians in Medicare??s New Data System
Welch, H Gilbert MD, MPH; Englert, Ellen T. BA; Whitman, Doug MBA; Miller, Mark E. PhD Author Information
The Impact of Practicing in Multiple Hospitals on Physician Profiles
Although physicians are all too familiar with the psychologic impact of having multiple responsibilities, the associated impact on practice styles has not been examined systematically. To provide some data on the effects of "work dispersion," we examined the hypothesis that the inpatient resource use of physicians would rise with the number of hospitals in which they work. Data for 1991 from Medicare's National Claims History File were used to pr…
Effects of Arctic Alaska Oil Development on Brant and Snow Geese
Black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) and lesser snow geese (Chen c. caerulescens) breeding in and near arctic Alaska oil fields could be affected by oil development actions such as releases of contaminants, alteration of tundra surfaces, creation of impoundments, and human activities. These actions could affect geese directly (e.g., through oil spills) or indirectly (e.g., by altering food supplies or predator populations). Studies to date ind…
Exploring the Relationship Between Inpatient Facility and Physician Services
OBJECTIVES: Medicare hospitalizations involve both facility and physician services. Although several studies analyze hospital-level variations in Medicare inpatient facility and inpatient physician services per admission, few studies directly explore the relationship between these services. Theoretically, inpatient facility and physician services may be complements or substitutes. That is, an increase in facility services may lead to an increase …
Key Issues in Archaeological Collections Management
The Trappers Point Site (48SU1006): Early Archaic Adaptations and Pronghorn Procurement in the Upper Green River Basin, Wyoming
The Trappers Point site is a stratified Early Archaic site near Pinedale, WYoming, containing three intact cultural components (strata III, V, VII) ranging in age from 7880-4690 radiocarbon years before present (RCYBP). Pronghorn remains are the most common elements and they indicate a spring season of use for the middle of the three occupations. Comparisons of skeletal morphology and behavior between prehistoric and modern pronghorn populations …
Minister to the Cherokees: A Civil War Autobiography
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community
Martha Harroun Foster's study of Montana's multiracial Métis reveals that groups in the United States have long struggled for recognition of their aboriginal heritage. We Know Who We Are joins a growing body of literature that seeks to unravel the complexities of ethnic identity in plural societies, a highly emotional and controversial issue. Foster is particularly intrigued with how a group of people with Indian and European ancestry, which lack…
Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir
Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir Get access Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir. By Gatewood Charles B.. Edited and additional text by Kraft Louis. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xxxvii + 283 pp. Illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95; £30.50.) Mark Edwin Miller Mark Edwin Miller Southern Utah University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western…
Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes
University of Utah historian W. Paul Reeve has written an intriguing and engaging monograph examining the dynamic interchange between Mormons, miners, and Southern Paiutes along the Great Basin's southern rim. Broadly covering the last four decades of the nineteenth century, Reeves focuses his lens most closely on southwestern Utah and southeastern Nevada during the turbulent 1860s and 1870s when the clash of cultures reached its zenith. Paiutes,…
Note from the President
Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity
In Native Acts Joanne Barker makes a compelling argument that native peoples are only “seen” and recognized as “authentic” within legal structures, racialized discourses, and social constructs that reinforce and reify national narratives and existing U.S. power structures to maintain dependent colonial relations with aboriginal nations. Using thought-provoking case studies, the work illuminates how natives navigate those parameters and explores h…
L’art mobilier paléoindien du Wyoming (États‐Unis)
Les premiers chercheurs à avoir étudié l’art rupestre du Wyoming ne mesuraient pas la durée d’occupation de la région. David Gebbard créa la première chronologie des manifestations artistiques pour le Wyoming, une séquence relative de quatre styles sur la base des superpositions. Plus récemment, Ron Dorn, Julie Francis et Larry Loendorf ont publié une chronologie à partir de dates radiométriques, des proportions de cation et de la microlamination…
Paleoindian Portable Art from Wyoming (USA)
Paleoindian portable art, while sparse, has been reported from several Wyoming localities, both dated and undated, and with good archaeological provenience or no established provenience. Additional examples have been recovered from many later Holocene sites. Media for these art objects include sandstone, steatite, bison bone, and mammoth ivory. Techniques ranged from light incision and deep scoring to pecking, and motifs ranged from abstract to a…
In search of the Fraeb battlefield and trading post, August 1841
During the late 1830s and early 1840s, trading posts in Wyoming were relocating to major waterways and trail systems to capture the burgeoning indigenous bison robe and overland Euroamerican emigrant trade. Recent research discovered references to a “Fraeb's trading post” operating in southern Wyoming during the 1830s. Wyoming cultural records also contain a site form for 48CR1184, the “Bridger and Fraeb trading post,” located in south-central Wy…
The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
Book Review| April 01 2017 The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity. By Gregory D. Smithers. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. 358 pp. Glossary of names, notes, and index. $40 (cloth). Mark E. Miller Mark E. Miller Southern Utah University Mark E. Miller is Professor of History at Southern Utah University. H…
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