The article features Monte Joe Sanburg, recipient of the Ivol Hagar Award of the Colorado Archaeological Society (CAS) in 2008. He was born in the Uncompahgre Valley to Ruby L. and Carroll B. Sanburg. He married Shirley Sheibler in 1952, the same year that he first joined the Chipeta Chapter. He served as state president and vice-president of the CAS chapter by 1965.