Upper Midwest / Great Plains (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen R. Fellows. David R. Hubin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bonanza farms are iconic of and central to the white settlement of North Dakota, but were surprisingly short lived (beginning in the 1870s, larger holdings were being dissolved by the 1890s). These large agroindustrial operations cultivated tens of thousands of acres in...