Evanston Chinatown (Site Name Keyword)
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Sediment samples were collected from a bone bed and an outhouse at the Evanston Chinatown historic site (48UT1749) in southwest Wyoming. These samples were examined for evidence of pollen and starch granules that might identify both modern vegetation and food, for parasite eggs that might indicate parasite infestation, and for protein residues to identify possible animal proteins present in the sediments. The sample from an outhouse pit also was floated to recover macrofloral evidence of...
Women and Children in the Evanston Chinatown (2004)
In the later part of the nineteenth century, Chinese communities in the northern Rocky Mountains and Plains could be characterized by one basic generalization: few Chinese women and children lived in these communities. Alberta, Canada, in 1891, had one Chinese woman living in the Province and by 1901, when the next census was taken; she had moved away (Alberta Census 1891, 1901). More typical of the interior west were places like Silver Bow County, Montana, or Rock Springs, Wyoming, where one or...