Great Plains, United States of America (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David R Hubin. Kristen R Fellows.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds II: Historical Whitewashing and Modern Reimagining of Rural America’s Fantasy Past", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The mythos that exists regarding “settlement” of present-day North Dakota largely revolves around the introduction of the railroad and industrial-scale Bonanza farms that followed. The result is a historical narrative that prioritizes a few key actors, all of...