Excavation Of The Donner Reed
by Bruce Hawkins
University of Utah Press, 1990
Cloth: 978-0-87480-331-0 | Paper: 978-0-87480-605-2
Library of Congress Classification F832.G7H38 1990
Dewey Decimal Classification 979.243
TOC
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 2
- OVERLAND EMIGRATION, THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL, AND THE HASTINGS CUTOFF
- Topping, Gary
- Chapter 3
- HOWARD STANSBURY'S EXPEDITION TO THE GREAT SALT LAKE, 1849–50
- Madsen, Brigham D.
- Chapter 4
- PREVIOUS EXPEDITIONS TO THE ABANDONED WAGON SITES
- 1870s Expedition
- 1897 Expedition
- 1927 Expedition
- 1929 Expeditions
- 1930 Expeditions
- 1936 Expedition
- 1956 Expedition
- 1957 Expedition
- 1962 Expedition
- Chapter 5
- EXCAVATION PROCEDURES
- Identification of the Wagon Sites
- Transportation and Logistics
- Field Methods
- Laboratory Methods
- Chapter 6
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT
- 42To467
- 42To468
- 42To469
- 42To470
- 42To471
- Summary and Interpretation
- Chapter 7
- ARTIFACTS
- Clothing-Related Artifacts
- Ammunition
- Tack and Animal Equipment
- Wagon Parts
- Food, Water, Medicine, and Ink Containers
- Luggage Hardware and Packing Containers
- Tools
- Miscellaneous Hardware
- Unidentified Iron, Brass, and Leather
- Wood Fragments
- Geological Specimens
- Faunal Remains
- Summary
- Chapter 8
- ISOLATED FINDS AND PREVIOUSLY COLLECTED ARTIFACTS
- Specimens from the 1927 Expedition at Donner Memorial State Park
- Specimens from the 1929 and 1930 Expeditions at the Donner-Reed Memorial Museum
- Hastings Cutoff Ruts and Isolated Finds
- Summary
- Chapter 9
- INTERPRETATION
- Appendix I:
- Textile and Brush Analysis
- Hanniball, Ann
- Appendix II:
- Faunal Analysis
- Manion, M. Elizabeth
- References
- Index
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