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A Historical overview of the Archaeological Resources Associated with the Development of the Port Covington Area, Baltimore, Maryland (1989)
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In Search of Camps’ Warner: Tracking US Military Presence in the Warner Valley, Oregon 1866-1874 (2017)
Following the discovery of gold and growing reports of trouble in eastern Oregon, the US Military established a series of four forts to protect settlers and miners flocking to this part of the state and to insure continued use of local military roads. One of these forts, Camp Warner, served as the primary military fort in the Warner Valley from 1866 to 1874. Camp Warner actually consisted of two separate fort locations; old Camp Warner in use from 1866-1867, and new Camp Warner in use from...
Old Fort Madison - National Register Nomination Form (1972)
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"Scurvy on the Great Plains:" Archaeology, Geophysics, and Stories of Fort Rice (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the mid-1800s, the United States Government ordered the construction of military forts across the Northern Plains. Constructed in 1864, Fort Rice become one of the first military posts in what is now the State of North Dakota. The fort was a vital military instillation through its expansion by the First US Volunteers, also known as Galvanized Yankees (where most died of...
"A Terror to the Camp, Wherever She Finds Herself": Confronting the Mythologies Around Frontier Army Laundresses (2024)
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. Drawing on feminist interventions into Western histories, this paper reconsiders the important of laundresses at frontier fort installations. Too often coded as camp-followers and prostitutes, military laundresses were ration-drawing employees of the Army present at all frontier forts through the...