Red Buttes Dugout: A Case Study for Identifying Small-Scale Alcohol Production

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The American Wild West was characterized by illicit activity. During the Temperance period (1800-1933) of American history, alcohol consumption became an increasingly policed activity. This paper will present the findings of an analysis of the material culture at the Red Buttes Dugout in comparison to other known bootlegging and alcohol production sites in Wyoming and the broader Western United States. This comparative analysis will serve to determine the correlative archaeological material culture that can be used to identify small-scale alcohol production across the region. Second, this analysis will be used to determine if the Red Buttes Dugout assemblage is suggestive of small-scale alcohol production.

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• SHA 2023 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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