Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part IV: Firearms, Trapping, and Fishing Equipment
Creators: name: Hunt, William J.
Publisher: name: United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Williams County, North Dakota
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/21645/williams-county-north-dakota
subject: 19th Century
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5536/19th-century
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: Historic Native American
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/30/historic-native-american
subject: Metis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/7502/metis
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Euroamerican
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/28/euroamerican
subject: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/2797/fort-union-trading-post-national-historic-site
subject: 32WI17
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/2776/32wi17
subject: Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/256/domestic-structures
subject: Military Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/322/military-structure
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Trading Post
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/569/trading-post
subject: Communal / Public Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/314/communal-public-structure
subject: Historic Communal / Public Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/316/historic-communal-public-structure
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: Plains Rifle
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135284/plains-rifle
subject: Muskets
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/60148/muskets
subject: U.S. Musket, Model 1808
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135287/us-musket-model-1808
subject: U.S. Pistol, Model 1836
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135288/us-pistol-model-1836
subject: Pistols
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/34167/pistols
subject: U.S. Rifle, Model 1817
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135285/us-rifle-model-1817
subject: Northwest Gun
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135286/northwest-gun
subject: Tin Box
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135291/tin-box
subject: Shot and Ball
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135292/shot-and-ball
subject: Fishing Equipment
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/77628/fishing-equipment
subject: Pocket Pistol
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135289/pocket-pistol
subject: Kentucky Pistol
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subject: Metal Cartridge
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135295/metal-cartridge
subject: Hunting Equipment
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135296/hunting-equipment
subject: Amunition
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135293/amunition
subject: Paper Cartridge
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135294/paper-cartridge
subject: Fort
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subject: Trapping Materials
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/134219/trapping-materials
subject: Material Culture
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/3851/material-culture
subject: Gunflints
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/41106/gunflints
subject: Historic Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/2259/historic-site
subject: Trading Post
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subject: Fishing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/2405/fishing
subject: Cartridges
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/36837/cartridges
subject: Percussion Caps
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/38502/percussion-caps
subject: Collections Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/3/collections-research

description: National Park Service archaeological excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site from 1968 through 1972. Although a preliminary report describing the extent and nature of the excavations was produced shortly after the close of each season's fieldwork, until recently the extensive collection of artifacts and other materials recovered during that work has remained largely unanalyzed and unreported for want of sufficient funding. A systematic effort to analyze and report all classes of material in the Fort Union collection was initiated in 1978 under the direction of Dick Ping Hsu with assistance from Leslie A. Perry. When Hsu transferred from the Midwest Archeological Center in 1981 and Perry left the National Park Service in 1982, this work was continued by William J. Hunt, Jr. These efforts have resulted in a series of manuscript reports, each focusing on a particular aspect of the 1968-1972 work at Fort Union. The series, entitled "Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports," consists of a volume (Part I) by Hunt which critically assesses the fieldwork accomplished during the four seasons of work at the site; four volumes, with sections authored by Hunt or Perry or both, which describe the food-related artifacts (Part II); personal and recreational materials (Part III); the firearms, trapping and fishing equipment (Part IV); and the buttons (Part V) recovered from the site. Another volume (Part VI), by Carole A. Angus and Carl R. Falk, summarizes information about the vertebrate faunal remains from the Fort Union excavations. As more classes of material in this large and important collection are analyzed, more descriptive reports will be completed in this series. This report is Part IV of the series.