ABSTRACT
The author's active interest in archaeology began in 1941 at age fourteen, when two friends and the author discovered, or rediscovered, a burial cave near Green Bay. One of the most vivid images implanted in the author's mind by his great-grandmother during his childhood was that of Amable Deguire on the Plains of Abraham outside the walls of Quebec during the French and Indian War. The idea of descent from Amable Deguire inspired and sustained my own interests in history and historical archaeology for half a century. In 1953, the author spent six months as a graduate student assisting with a socioeconomic study of the Venezuelan Andes. He worked alone in an isolated former Indian mission town, as a participant observer of the community life. The author's great-grandmother Elsie Anger let no one forget that her relative Amable Deguire, called Larose, fought alongside Charles de Langlade on the Plains of Abraham in defense of Quebec in 1759.
