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'Owing to the Backwardness of the Season’:Assessing the Exploratory Mining Process on Isle Royale (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Isle Royale located in Lake Superior was one of the centers of the nation’s first copper rush. Copper veins drew mid-19th century miners looking to stake a claim. By the mid-1850s these initial attempts at mining failed as the remote location and logistical hurtles made extracting...