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DOCUMENT Citation Only William A. White.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On July 31, 1940, African American World War I veteran Pearl Royal Hendrickson shot and killed a Federal Marshall sent to evict him from his home in the foothills overlooking Boise, Idaho. This action precipitated a standoff between Hendrickson and dozens of law enforcement officers from across Idaho. Archaeological surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019 to relocate the site of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Goetzmann.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea E. Rose.

On December 17, 1887, the final spike connecting the railroad between Oregon and California was driven in Ashland, Oregon.  Like earlier railroads, this track was largely constructed by Chinese workers.  However, due to experience and expertise, these men were able to demand better pay and working conditions than their earlier counterparts. Upon completion, the railroad continued to provide economic opportunities for Chinese residents in Southern Oregon. The Wah Chung Company supplied goods,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raymond Sumner.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Julesburg Station (5SW26) and Camp Rankin (5SW24) are located in northeastern Colorado along the South Platte River.  In January and February 1865, they became the focal point of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota response to the Sand Creek Massacre.  During this period ranches and stage stations along 150-miles of the Overland Trails were raided and attacked in response to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Rose. Tiah Edmunson-Morton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Largely assumed to consist of a male dominated workforce and clientele, in reality, many early Oregon breweries were family affairs. The Eagle Brewery and Saloon, one of the first breweries in Oregon, was run by German immigrants Joseph and Fredericka Wetterer. They sold lager beer, distilled whisky and brandy, and had a small...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trinity L Hunter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2006, the state of Idaho began its largest archaeological project to date: the Sandpoint Archaeology Project. Emerging from 500 units, over 550,000 artifacts tell the story of the town’s “Restricted District,” home to two houses of sex work, two saloons, and a dance hall. The adjacent proximity of a brothel and a bordello allows...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Crandall.

Bioarchaeologists have rarely marshalled data from historic American burial assemblages to explore the dynamics of violence in the borderlands West. This paper considers the social dynamics of American violence under Manifest Destiny through an exploration of ballistic trauma patterns documented in extant historical bioarchaeology literature. This study examines the lives of 42 individuals whose remains exhibit fatal gunshot wounds from across the mid-17th and early 20th century America. Trauma...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Goetzmann.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Victor.

This is an abstract from the "Frontier and Settlement Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Frontiers are creative, chaotic places where cultures collide with geological and ecological forces of the physical environment; however, these dynamic spaces of interaction, meeting, and change, are often highly focused on one population – that of the dominant settler and colonizer. Particularly in the American West, frontier narratives follow dour...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan D. Postemski.

Trails, paths, and roads comprise the landscape of movement. As these features accumulate in the landscape, they form a palimpsest, attesting to changing modes and patterns of human movement through time. This project examines the historic trail network in and around Fort Union National Monument (FOUNM) in New Mexico. During the nineteenth century, Fort Union served as guardian of the most prominent thoroughfare, the Santa Fe Trail, which channeled people, wagons, livestock, goods, and ideas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William White.

What gets measured gets managed. Public archaeology projects seek to involve local stakeholders in the conservation of their own history. Universities, not-for-profit organizations, and volunteers have taken leadership roles in public archaeology. Landowners and public institutions are tasked with the management of heritage resources. This is primarily done through cultural resource management and historic preservation laws; but, in the case of public archaeology, it also frequently involves...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Rose.

The National Historic Landmark town of Jacksonville, Oregon is celebrated for its nineteenth century past. While saloons, hotels, and shops survive as testament to the days of the Oregon gold rush, the selective preservation of the built environment has created a romanticized frontier landscape. A sleepy park now covers the once bustling Chinese Quarter, which burned to the ground in 1888. Recent public archaeology excavations revealed the remains of a burned building, and led to a fruitful...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James E Snead.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of historic roads in the North American West is a complex process. Pragmatic issues of scale, accessibility, and preservation are accompanied by aspects of interpretation and meaning. This is particularly evident in southern California, where the vast physical transformations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A. Bartlett.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea E. Rose.

Like other aspects of Western historiography, the story of the Chinese diaspora in the gold fields has been circumscribed by exotic tales of vice, violence, and alienation.  The legacy of frontier rhetoric has continued to impact scholarship through assumptions of scarcity, isolation, and discrimination.  While discriminatory laws and racial tensions certainly impacted the lives of the nineteenth century Chinese living in southern Oregon, they did not wholly define them.  This paper will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Rose.

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. It is a well-established fact that Chinese immigrants to the United States faced chronic structural violence and institutional discrimination on the local, regional, and national level. However, it is unclear the degree to which acute or interpersonal violence was experienced in everyday life by early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Campbell Caves.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the summer of 2021, I reanalyzed the privy assemblage associated with the Teager/Weimer site located in Arlington, Washington. Within the assemblage, there is a Heinrich Fiehn Ocarina from the late 19th century, which represents a unique artifact well suited to the biographical method of analysis. The biographic approach...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Rose.

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. The Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site represents one of the key interpretive hubs for Chinese heritage in the Pacific Northwest. Once home to the John Day Chinatown, its residents provided medical care, groceries, automobiles, and employment to the citizens of eastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl G. Drexler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Shifting Borders: Early-19th Century Archeology in the Trans-Mississippi South" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Great Bend of the Red River is the junction between the American states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. In the first decades of the 19th century, it was a place of complex connections and interactions as immigrant Native communities from the east, along with American settlers,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. Joey LaValley.

This poster reports on results from 25,745 contiguous acres of pedestrian survey in southern Steptoe Valley and the Schell Creek Range of east-central Nevada. An extensive Class III cultural resource inventory conducted in 2014 and 2015 by EnviroSystems Management, Inc., resulted in the recordation of 285 new sites, seven previously documented sites, and 386 isolated artifacts/features. These resources span the entirety of human occupation in the Great Basin. Sites include Paleoindian, Archaic,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ericha E. Sappington.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Walla Walla was established in eastern Washington Territory as a U.S. Army outpost in 1856 and served in various military capacities before being decommissioned in 1910. In 1873, the 1st U.S. Cavalry arrived to begin post-Civil War Era construction and two laundress quarters were built. Documentary research has uncovered new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Swords.

Established in the early 1880s, Sandpoint, Idaho became a bustling railroad and lumber town with commercial businesses sprouting up along the Northern Pacific railroad tracks. Overseas Chinese came through the town when building the railroad, but quickly moved on along with the construction. Who then, were the Overseas Chinese that came and settled, making Sandpoint their home? Archaeological investigations of the original town site uncovered a structure referred to as Sandpoint’s "Chinatown"...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tommy Hailey.

During the 1860s, Alkali Station, Nebraska served a brief but colorful role as a Pony Express Station, a post office, a stage station, and a military post during the westward expansion of the United States. With the coming of the railroads, Alkali Station, like so many other frontier outposts, became obsolete, and it was abandoned. Its structures fell into ruin, and soon assorted depressions and rises were all that remained. At ground level, spatial patterning of the site’s visible features is...