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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...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
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...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

Creator:

Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.

Abstract:

Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis