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Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

Creator:

Prior, Jan M.

Abstract:

The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

Creator:

Prior, Jan M.

Abstract:

The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...

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