Casting a Wide  Net recognizes the important legacy and contributions that Dr. Joel C. Janetski has made to archaeology.  This volume contains a short biography of Dr. Janetski as well as chapters authored by several of his former students and research collaborators. The essays cover many topics that overlap with Dr. Janetski's research interests including: Interpreting Fremont central structure use; The Fremont bird cult; Ancestral Puebloan pottery in the Fremont area; Fremont in the Piceance Basin of Colorado; Great Salt Lake Fremont and forager identities and borderland relationships; Artiodactyl hunting and the Promontory Caves; History, prehistory, and place at the Uintah River Mounds; Julian Steward’s 1930 excavations near Blanding, Utah; Stable Isotope chemistry and accelerator radiocarbon dating and Basketmaker II economies; Plain-weave sandals and communities of practice in the northern Southwest; Mustang drive lines and corrals in eastern Utah; Nineteenth-century mortuary practices of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Science and technology centers as role models for archaeology exhibitions.