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Monte Cristo’s Gold: A Case Study of a Hard Rock Gold Mining Town in Washington’s Cascade Range at the Turn of the 20th Century. (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aubrey Steingraber.

In the 1890s, the town of Monte Cristo, located deep within Washington’s Cascade Range, promised to be one of the state’s most profitable mining towns. Gold was first discovered in Glacier Basin in 1889, and Monte Cristo, assisted by a railroad that ran directly from the town to the city of Everett, developed nearby to support local mining endeavors. Unfortunately, the mines were not as profitable as originally hoped. By 1905, mining had mostly seized, and the town was eventually abandoned. In...

Nome-Taylor Road: Cultural Resources Survey Along Mile 21 To Mile 68, Seward Peninsula, Alaska (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rolfe G. Buzzell. Douglas Gibson.

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The Persistence of Resistance: Chinese Kongsi Partnerships in 18th Century Borneo and 19th Century North America (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Don Hann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arming the Resistance: Recent Scholarship in Chinese Diaspora Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chinese immigrant gold miners in North America are generally portrayed as unskilled laborers eking out a bare subsistence by scouring placer deposits previously worked and abandoned by white miners. Archaeological evidence and historic documentation suggest this is a gross oversimplification. For a...

Prohibition Mountain Vegetative Management Environmental Assessment:Cultural Resource Inventory Report (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

Report Re: Tusk Fragment, Valdez Creek Mine (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Lee.

Research Summary: Cultural Resources Investigations in the Dunkle Mine and Kantishna Hills Study Areas, Alaska (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bill Brown.

Tibbals' Cabin Dump Site: a Menu From a Late 1800's Wyoming Gold Mining Town (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan Wimer.

The Vigilante Trail (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Merrill G. Burlingame.

When Sites Collide: Bridging the Gap Between History and Prehistory in Cultural Resources Management (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shauna Mundt. Maya Klingler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What Is "Historical"?", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the ways in which historic period activities have impacted indigenous sites, with a focus on gold mining in California, and how this is documented in the Cultural Resources Management (CRM) industry. Using previous research and geoarchaeological data, we analyze multicomponent archaeological resources comprising historic period mining...

Women, Chinese Miners, and Gold Rush Relationships in the Boise Basin (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renae J. Campbell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds: Diversity, Remembrance, and the Forging of the Rural American West", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Southern Idaho’s Boise Basin was the site of a late-nineteenth-century mineral rush that attracted gold seekers from around the globe to the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. For more than fifty years, this pluralistic population took up residence in small towns...