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Filtering by: Creator Buehrens, Thomas W. Advisor Brauner, David R. Subject French Prairie (Or.) -- History -- 19th century

Little houses on the prairie : a predictive model of French-Canadian settlement in Oregon's Willamette Valley

Creator:

Kinoshita, Jun R.

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Using GIS, this study creates a predictive model of a distinct population of French-Canadian settlers, highlighting shared environmental characteristics of known sites that may have factored into their decision-making process as they chose locations for their farmsteads. While traditional historic and archaeological research has been conducted on French Prairie, the...

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Masters Thesis

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Steward and the work of Willey (Thomas 1990; Trigger 1989). Willey went beyond diagramming the
A settlement model at the Robert Newel Farmstead (35MA41), French Prairie, Oregon

Creator:

Manion, Mollie Jo

Abstract:

This thesis is based on the excavations of the Robert Newell farmstead (35MA41), excavated in 2002 and 2003 by the Oregon State University Department of Anthropology archaeological field school. Robert Newell lived at this farm from 1843- 1854. Major architectural features, including a brick hearth and postholes were discovered at...

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Masters Thesis

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farm location he stopped at Mr. Thomas McKay's house and procured horses from his foreman Louis