Hello Nancy et al.,
It is funny how topics like this come up at just the right moment on HISTARCH. Just yesterday I was mentioning your work to two of my graduate students here at St. Cloud State University (SCSU). This summer we received a grant to use remote sensing and shovel testing to locate a "settler's fort" built in response to the U.S. - Dakota Conflict of 1862. We believe we have located the stockade, which was said to have been built around a ca. 1857 log hotel. We plan to return to the site next summer to open up a block of units to better expose the stockade. In the meantime, we have just received a second grant to employ the same methodology to see if we can locate another 1862 "settler's fort" here on the campus of SCSU. We will be conducting the field work next month. Both projects will be written up as part of my student's thesis projects and we will also produce project reports for the Minnesota Historical Society, the source of our funding. In the meantime, my students and I will be presenting the results of our work so far at the upcoming Midwest Historical Archaeology Conference (MHAC) being held in Minneapolis this October. I hope that you and others will be able to join us there. I will be sending out the MHAC second CFP to HISTARCH later today.
This is my third year at SCSU and I was surprised to learn that although there were over 50 such "settler's forts" built in Minnesota during the 1862 U.S. - Dakota Conflict and there are at least two "reconstructions" of these forts, until our projects none had been documented archaeologically and there has been no systematic effort to locate these sites. I feel we are on the leading edge of such a project here at SCSU and I very much look forward to seeing a new edition of your Stockading Up publication.
Best Regards,
Rob Mann
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St. Cloud State University
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Subject: pioneer station sites
Back in 1987, I published a grant report called Stockading Up that compiled historical and archaeological information on defensible station sites settled in the Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky during the early settlement period. At the time, I knew of no other comprehensive compilation of these sites in Kentucky or in other sites that had similar defensible sites. Since 1987, I've continued to research stations and some years back, I stopped producing copies of Stockading Up for sale because I wanted to release a revised publication that reflected my additional research, new insights and so on. The revisions are underway and I am having to check everything I said in 1987 for accuracy. Although I am aware of site-specific studies that have done, I haven't found any comprehensive compilations similar to what I produced in 1987 for other states in which defensible stations occurred. Is it still a true statement that comprehensive studies of stations have not been completed elsewhere?
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