Kathleen Gilmore and the Archaeological Investigations of La Salle’s Fort St. Louis in Texas
Author(s): Jim Bruseth
Year: 2017
Summary
Archaeological investigations at La Salle’s 1685-89 Fort St. Louis in Texas (41VT4) were conducted in 1950 by the Texas Memorial Museum and again in 1999-2002 by the Texas Historical Commission. Kathleen Gilmore analyzed the artifacts from the 1950 excavations and identified the site as the location of the French colony of Fort St. Louis. The 1999-2002 further confirmed this assessment and recovered much information about a Spanish presidio built over the French settlement. Kathleen was a senior advisor on the more recent investigations, and was a consistent source of inspiration for the crew. This paper highlights her work on both the early and the later investigations of La Salle’s Texas colony.
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Kathleen Gilmore and the Archaeological Investigations of La Salle’s Fort St. Louis in Texas. Jim Bruseth. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435239)
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Keywords
General
French Colonial
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La Salle
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
French Colonial
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 642