Western U.S. (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Hangan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1920s to survive a slump in the supply of timber in the south, lumber companies moved out of the south to new timber markets in westerns states such as California and Arizona spurring a migration of highly skilled Black workers out of the south to the west. This migration, though seemingly...