Linda--some of these are more general, but I thought they might be of some
potential interest. Franzen's piece is not on mining, but has some very
insightful analysis of workers' living conditions in logging camps. My
piece approaches ethnicity primarily through the perspective of the
technology employed in mining.
 
If you compile a biblio of responses  I would love a copy.
--Dave Landon
 
 
Franzen, John,  "Northern Michigan Logging Camps: Material Culture and
Worker Adaptation on the Industrial Frontier," Historical Archaeology  26.2
(1992): 74-98.
 
LaLande, Jeffrey M.,  "Sojourners in Search of Gold: Hydraulic Mining
Techniques of the Chinese on the Oregon Frontier," IA: The Journal of the
Society for Industrial Archeology  11.1 (1985): 29-52.
 
Hardesty, Donald L., "Class, Gender Strategies, and Material Culture in the
Mining West," Those of Little Note: Gender, Race, and Class in Historical
Archaeology, ed. Elizabeth M. Scott.  (Tucson: University of Arizona Press,
1994) 129-145.
 
Langenwalter, Paul E, "The Archaeology of 19th Century Chinese Subsistence
at the Lower China Store, Madera County, California," Archaeological
Perspectives on Ethnicity in America, ed. Robert Schuyler.  (Farmingdale,
New York: Baywood, 1980) 102-112.
 
Fenenga, Franklin,  "Post-1800 Mining Camps," Historical Archaeology  1
(1967): 80-82.
 
Landon, David, and Timothy Tumberg,  "Archeological Perspectives on the
Diffusion of Technology: An Example from the Ohio Trap Rock Mine Site," IA:
Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology  22.2 (1996): 40-57.
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