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  • Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

    Creator:
    Purdy, Sarah E.
    Abstract:
    For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The search for gold has greatly changed the landscape of the American West, beginning in the 1850s and continuing today. Various gold rushes around the country created mining colonies in remote areas, thereby connecting the frontier with the rest of America...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . I would like to thank Dr. Anne Nolin for serving as my minor advisor and for inspiring me to use

  • Battle of Big Bend

    Creator:
    Applen, Jeffery A.
    Abstract:
    The Battle of Big Bend was the last significant battle of the Rogue River Indian Wars. The battle occurred 27-28 May 1856 in the Oregon Territory. The location of the battle was along the Rogue River at a place known as the Big Bend, approximately eight miles up river from...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Curry County, Oregon. The battle was fought between one reinforced Army company; Company "C", 1st

  • Caution! High Water: A Historical Archaeological Investigation of the Champoeg Townsite (ORMA26) after the 1861 Flood

    Creator:
    Hill, Cayla L.
    Abstract:
    The Champoeg townsite first developed due to its ideal settlement and trade location within the Willamette Valley, becoming the ‘legal birthplace of Oregon’ in 1843. However, by 1860 Champoeg’s significance had begun to decline, and in December of 1861 a devastating flood wiped out the townsite. Archaeological excavations took place...
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    Dissertation
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    ………………………………………..……..293 A.3 Lot 1: C Artifact Assemblage…………………………………...………….293 A.4 Lot 1: D Artifact Assemblage

  • The effects of the Mazama tephra-falls : a geoarchaeological approach

    Creator:
    Matz, Stephan E.
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    About 7,000 years ago two major tephra-falls blanketed the Pacific Northwest in volcanic ash. These two tephra-falls, identified as the Llao and climatic tephra-falls, were a part of the eruptive events that led up to the collapse of Mount Mazama to form Crater Lake in the southern Oregon Cascades. The...
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    Masters Thesis
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    climate (c), geomorphology (g), and soils (s). The concept of the ecosystem plays the role of the

  • Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

    Creator:
    McAleer, Carolyn Patricia
    Abstract:
    This thesis examines archaeological material in order to explore gender and ethnicity issues concerning fur trade era families from a settlement in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Ethnohistorical information consisting of traders journals and travelers observations, as well as documentation from the Hudson's Bay Company, Catholic church records, and genealogical information...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ), and Camas (Camassia quamash and C. leichtinii), which were the most commonly mentioned in texts such

  • Ku on the Columbia : Hawaiian laborers in the Pacific Northwest Fur Industry

    Creator:
    Rogers, Donnell J.
    Abstract:
    Archaeological investigations can reveal persistent traditions of ethnic groups. Hawaiians were employed in the fur trade of the Columbia River from 1810 through 1850. The Hudson's Bay Company employed them at Ft. Vancouver, Washington from 1825 through the end of this period. Data from the excavations of the servant's village...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Tonga, and Samoa by about 500 B. C. (Kirch 1989:20). After about 300 A. D., the independent development

  • Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

    Creator:
    Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann
    Abstract:
    Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a transportation center for both river and overland travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products. Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers began arriving in large numbers...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Champoeg NES/1/(CA i ,:......./.0viit... %X.."'" l's Ce RmNN,.I y.,i-bi'l v RIVE0 . 0, C.14 '`1st

  • Hull -Oakes Lumber Company's Steam-Powered Sawmill : A Case Study in Industrial Archaeology

    Creator:
    Wisner, George B.
    Abstract:
    By examining the combined written, ethnographic and physical evidence of a surviving steam-powered sawmill in the Douglas-fir region of the Pacific Northwest, this thesis seeks to supply new insights into the operation and adaptability of antiquated machinery during a period of rapid social and technological change and to develop a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    elevation of the "green chain" of the Hull sawmill 126 4.c East elevation of Hull sawmill sawdust fuel

  • The expansion of Catholicism : an exploration of St. Joseph's College, the first Catholic boarding school for boys within the Oregon territory

    Creator:
    Hill, Cayla L.
    Abstract:
    St. Joseph's College was located within St. Paul, Oregon, the first Roman Catholic mission in the Pacific Northwest. The St. Paul mission was finally established in 1839 by Father Francois Blanchet, four years after the French-Canadian settlers in the area, appropriately known as French Prairie, had requested the presence of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    …………………………………....……….184 A.2 Test Pit B Artifact Assemblage………………………….……….…...…….185 A.3 Test Pit C Artifact

  • Lower Salmon River Cultural Resource Management Plan

    Creator:
    Sisson, David A.
    Abstract:
    Cultural resource inventories have identified,205 individual sites on public land along the Lower Salmon River, Idaho. These sites represent a rich and diverse record of the human occupation and utilization of the river canyon during the past 10,000 years. Each of these 205 sites contains its own unique record of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ) historic features, and c) pre- historic features with depressions with elevation 75 5 Comparison of