"Ask Katharine" was the most common phrase heard at the Museum of Northern Arizona for more than fifty years. Since 1930, when the new Museum, founded by Dr. Harold S. Colton, had only four employees, Katharine Bartlett has been a driving force in the growth and development of this major Arizona museum. Anthropologist, archaeologist, historian, archivist, librarian, and writer, Miss Katharine Bartlett has been a major contributor to the literature on Arizona's Native Americans, past and present. Through her more than fifty published articles, she has helped to clarify aspects of Arizona's history long kept in the shadows. Her work on colonial Spanish routes through Arizona was a breakthrough in historic research.  Even though Miss Katharine Bartlett has now retired, she has left a legacy of excellence for others to try to equal. Undoubtedly, "Ask Katharine" probably still rings through the hallways of the Museum of Northern Arizona.