412:, who was the commander of the San Xavier and San Sabá presidios in central Texas, was suspected of involvement in a murder. Gilmore was determined to uncover his history and name his victim, Juana Francesca de Rodriguez, whose identity had been obscured from published accounts. Traveling to Spain, Italy and Mexico with an interpreter, and working with a
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Kirk had worked throughout her schooling at the Bone and Joint Center in Tulsa and the TU Library, after graduation she looked for a position as a geologist and found few opportunities for women. Taking a job as an editorial assistant at the
American Association of Petroleum Geologists in Tulsa, she
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and was French. Combined with the other materials she had evaluated, including
Spanish artifacts, Gilmore revised her initial paper and confirmed that the site was definitively the location of Fort St. Louis. Her groundbreaking work solved the question of where the fort had been located and was the
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Gilmore pieced together the archival records and began compiling them into a book. During this period, she established the Texas
Presidios Project, in part to locate the various sites where Rábago had command. In 2003 Gilmore became the inaugural recipient of the Curtis D. Tunnell Lifetime
232:, of which he would later become president. Gilmore remained at home and raised their four daughters, Betsy, Judy, Pat and Sally and then in the early 1960s, she became involved with the Dallas Archaeological Society, participating in field schools, hosted around Dallas. One of the first
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of San
Francisco Xavier de Gigedo. Successfully locating all three mission communities, using a Spanish survey from the time of the construction of the missions, and identifying the presidio site, the field work she conducted there became the basis of her master's thesis,
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History Commission with receipt of the Governor's Award for Historic Preservation. At the time of her death, she was working on the final edits for publishing her book on Rábago, even editing in the hospital emergency room.
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on a re-examination of the Keeran site, which not only reaffirmed the accuracy of her location of Ft. Saint Louis and discovered the
Spanish presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto en la BahĂa, which had been constructed atop the French fort.
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Gilmore was interested in history, she developed a method in which she used historic archival materials to inform her planning for field work, but was careful to note that flaws in records, inherent
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later that same year. In 1986, she sent the pottery samples to Canada because extensive work had been done there on French ceramics of the period. Gerard Gussat analyzed the fragment and confirmed that it had been made in
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In 1990, Gilmore left UNT and began doing consulting work. In 1993, she consulted on a project to locate the site of the
Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá, which she had reported on in 1967. The mission was located in
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was located, close to the location
Gilmore had predicted, she worked on the excavation, which also discovered eight Spanish cannon at the site. She was the recipient of the
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sites or whether both historic and ancient sites were within the field. She attended a conference in 1967, in
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The Keeran Site: The Probable Site of La Salle's Fort St. Louis in Texas
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Tunnell, Curtis D. (2003). "A Conversation with Kathleen Kirk Gilmore".
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The San Xavier Mission: A Study in Historical Site Identification
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in 1685. Analyzing artifacts and pottery sherds, she published
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