Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part IV: Firearms, Trapping, and Fishing Equipment

Author(s): William J. Hunt, Jr.

Year: 1986

Summary

National Park Service archaeological excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site from 1968 through 1972. Although a preliminary report describing the extent and nature of the excavations was produced shortly after the close of each season's fieldwork, until recently the extensive collection of artifacts and other materials recovered during that work has remained largely unanalyzed and unreported for want of sufficient funding.

A systematic effort to analyze and report all classes of material in the Fort Union collection was initiated in 1978 under the direction of Dick Ping Hsu with assistance from Leslie A. Perry. When Hsu transferred from the Midwest Archeological Center in 1981 and Perry left the National Park Service in 1982, this work was continued by William J. Hunt, Jr. These efforts have resulted in a series of manuscript reports, each focusing on a particular aspect of the 1968-1972 work at Fort Union. The series, entitled "Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports," consists of a volume (Part I) by Hunt which critically assesses the fieldwork accomplished during the four seasons of work at the site; four volumes, with sections authored by Hunt or Perry or both, which describe the food-related artifacts (Part II); personal and recreational materials (Part III); the firearms, trapping and fishing equipment (Part IV); and the buttons (Part V) recovered from the site. Another volume (Part VI), by Carole A. Angus and Carl R. Falk, summarizes information about the vertebrate faunal remains from the Fort Union excavations. As more classes of material in this large and important collection are analyzed, more descriptive reports will be completed in this series.

This report is Part IV of the series.

Cite this Record

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part IV: Firearms, Trapping, and Fishing Equipment. William J. Hunt, Jr.. Material Culture Reports. Lincoln, Nebraska: United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center. 1986 ( tDAR id: 92365) ; doi:10.6067/XCV83R0SMH

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Keywords

Culture
Euroamerican • Historic • Historic Native American • Metis

Material
Metal

Site Name
32WI17 • Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site

Site Type
Communal / Public Structure • Domestic Structures • Historic Communal / Public Structure • Military Structure • Non-Domestic Structures • Trading Post

Investigation Types
Collections Research

General
Amunition • Cartridges • Fishing • Fishing Equipment • Fort • Gunflints • Historic Site • Hunting Equipment • Kentucky Pistol • Material Culture • Metal Cartridge • Muskets • Northwest Gun • Paper Cartridge • Percussion Caps • Pistols • Plains Rifle • Pocket Pistol • Shot and Ball • Tin Box • Trading Post • Trapping Materials • U.S. Musket, Model 1808 • U.S. Pistol, Model 1836 • U.S. Rifle, Model 1817

Geographic Keywords
Williams County, North Dakota

Temporal Keywords
19th Century • Historic

Spatial Coverage

min long: -104.068; min lat: 47.983 ; max long: -104.012; max lat: 48.016 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): John Ludwickson; William Hunt

Sponsor(s): Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service

Record Identifiers

NADB document id number(s): 2000902

NADB citation id number(s): 000000147535

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