Eldorado!
Subtitle: the archaeology of gold mining in the far North
By: edited by Catherine Holder Spude ... [et al.].
Contributors: Society for Historical Archaeology
Series: Historical archaeology of the American West; Historical archaeology of the American West
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; Society for Historical Archaeology
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lincoln; [Rockville, Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780803210998
Subjects: Gold discoveries; Gold mines and mining; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rediscovering Eldorado : an introduction to this volume / Catherine Holder Spude and Robin O. Mills; title: An overview history of the Alaska-Yukon gold rushes, 1880-1918 / Robert L. Spude; title: Theoretical perspectives on the frontier mining pattern / Donald L. Hardesty; title: A proposed model for a placer gold mining settlement system / Robin O. Mills; title: Predicting social and economic function at residential and commercial site types in the far North, 1880-1920 / Catherine Holder Spude; title: New perspectives from the North : comparative opportunities and challenges in an archaeology of Eldorado / Margaret Purser; title: Intermediate coastal transfer and supply settlements : supplying the Upper Yukon through Skagway and Dyea / Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude; title: Already here and rich : a brief ethnohistory of Upper Lynn Canal / Thomas F. Thornton; title: Tobacco pipes, medicinals, and decorated dishes : the archaeology of gender and economic class in households from Skagway, alaska / Doreen C. Cooper and Catherine Holder Spude; title: Faunal remains in Skagway : gold rush to working class / David R. Huelsbeck.; title: Getting around the landscape: links in the interior transportation system / Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude; title: An overview of Chilkoot Trail archaeology / Eve Griffin and Karl Gurcke; title: Canyon City : the archaeology of a company town on the transportation network to the Klondike / T.J. Hammer; title: Central and secondary distribution settlements : supplying the mining districts / Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude; title: Explaining variability in northern gold mining saloons / Catherine Holder Spude, Robert M. Weaver, and Tim A. Kardatzke; title: Living at the edge of a boomtown : transient life in Dawson City during the Klondike gold rush / Michael Brand; title: Boom through bust and beyond : changing settlement system functions at coldfoot, a placer mining town in Alaska / Robin O. Mills; title: Alder smoke and shoe nails : life in an early-20th-century mining camp / Howard L. Smith, Robin O. Mills, and Catherine Holder Spude; title: Extracting the wealth : sites on the gold creeks / Robin O. Mills and Catherine Holder Spude; title: Living the solitary life : placer mining camps in Alaska, 1900-1950 / Becky M. Saleeby; title: Alaska natives in the gold rush : a look at Valdez Creek in the early- to mid-20th century / Robert E. King; title: Cabin comforts : the archaeology of bachelor cabins on Fish Creek, Alaska / Andrew S. Higgs and Robert A. Sattler.