Hey Folks,
 
Im doing a lit. review and some small scale archaeology on the relocation of a community frieght scale in Southeastern Minnesota circa 1870s.
 
If anyone has useful information on this topic - please feel free to contact me off list (or send things to everyone).
 
Best,
 
Jeremy Nienow, RPA
 

 > Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:39:43 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: new book of interest> To: [log in to unmask]> > > Battles of the Red River War> Archeological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874> J. Brett Cruse> Contributions by Martha Doty Freeman and Douglas D. Scott> Foreword by Robert M. Utley> > Battles of the Red River War unearths a long-buried record of the > collision of two cultures.> In 1874, U.S. forces led by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie carried out > a surprise attack on several Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa bands > that had taken refuge in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Texas > panhandle and destroyed their winter stores and horses. After this > devastating loss, many of these Indians returned to their reservations > and effectively brought to a close what has come to be known as the > Red River War, a campaign carried out by the U.S. Army during > 1874 as a result of Indian attacks on white settlers in the region. > After this operation, the Southern Plains Indians would never again > pose a coherent threat to whites' expansion and settlement across > their ancestral homelands.> Until now, the few historians who have undertaken to tell the > story of the Red River War have had to rely on the official records > of the battles and a handful of extant accounts, letters, and journals > of the U.S. Army participants. Starting in 1998, J. Brett Cruse, > under the auspices of the Texas Historical Commission, conducted > archeological investigations at six battle sites. In the artifacts they > unearthed, Cruse and his teams found clues that would both correct > and complete the written records and aid understanding of the > Indian perspectives on this clash of cultures.> Including a chapter on historiography and archival research by > Martha Doty Freeman and an analysis of cartridges and bullets by > Douglas D. Scott, this rigorously researched and lavishly illustrated > work will commend itself to archeologists, military historians and > scientists, and students and scholars of the Westward Expansion.> > _________________________________________________________> > J. BRETT CRUSE is the Cultural Resources Coordinator for the > Historic Sites Division of the Texas Historical Commission, which > sponsored the investigation of the Red River War battle sites. He > lives in Round Rock.> > > What people are saying about this book> "The Red River War was a pivotal event in American history yet > paradoxically it has been largely overlooked as a topic of serious > research. Fortunately, this book makes up for lost time . . ."> —Charles M. Haecker, Archeologist, National Park Servicehttp://www.tamu.edu:80/upress/BOOKS/2008/cruse.htm