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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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 1830-1861 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Lou Ann Speulda Nicholls for the degree of Master of Arts in

Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

Creator:: Possiel, William John
Abstract:: The dramatic upsurge of contract-supported archaeological activity, generated by legislative action, has precipitated an increase in information about Oregon's prehistoric peoples. This information, however, has not been presented in a format which can be easily understood by the general public. This study presents an account of early peoples in Oregon,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: course of this study. Thanks to Dr. Thomas McC1 intock , Dr. Mary Lee Nolan , James Folts, and Dr. Fred

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

Creator:: Van Laere, M. Susan
Abstract:: The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November, 1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolated wilderness, parts of which had burned earlier in the century. There were some prairies where farming was possible, but because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Princess Mary, Daughter of Chief John 122 5.13 Benjamin Simpson, Agent at Coast Reservation, 1863-1871 134

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
Full Text:: , including: Mary Ann Davis, Julie Barnes, Tom Churchill, Mary Weber, Debi Soper, Robert Nesbit, Roderick

Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

Creator:: Poet, Rebecca McClelland
Abstract:: In 1986, researchers from Oregon State University, led by Dr. David Brauner, came to the small Catholic community of St. Paul, Oregon as part of ongoing research on the French-Canadian inhabitants of the Willamette Valley between 1829 and the mid-1860s. They were searching for the remains of the first Catholic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Catholic Missions in Old Oregon, Vol. 2. A portion of Sister Mary Catherine Cabareaux's memoirs, dealing

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

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

Creator:: Matz, Stephan E.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

Creator:: Boulware, Brooke L.
Abstract:: A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ..................................................................................................... 56 Figure 21 – Request for prayers, Mary Louisa Prevost (d. 1881), “May she rest in peace”; Jerome

One methodology for the incorporation of entomological material in the discipline of historic archaeology using the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) as a test subject

Creator:: Kellar, Brenda M.
Abstract:: Using the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) this thesis shows that entomological information and material can be retrieved using current historical archaeological methods. Historical archaeology has the ability to uncover connections between arenas as varied, and seemingly isolated, as the honey bee, the environment, and human cultures. By focusing on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: descendants of these same bees that were inherited by the brothers, John and Moses, and sister, Mary. Mr

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

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

Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

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

Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

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

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

The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

One methodology for the incorporation of entomological material in the discipline of historic archaeology using the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) as a test subject

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

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