Mark Walker wrote:
>I am in the process of compiling a bibliography of archaeological work at
19th- and 20th-century company towns or similar situations of
communities dominated by single industries.  My particular concern is coal
towns, but I am certainly interested in other industrial communities
(logging camps, steel towns, etc.).
 
My masters thesis focused on an early 20th c. oil boom town that was
controlled by a handful of oil companies.  The reference is:
Marsha K. King, 1981, _The Rise and Fall of Midian, Kansas:  The
Archaeology of an Oil Field Boom Town._ Dept. of Anthro., Brown
University, Providence, RI.
 
I was lucky enough to be able to go back to the site and conduct limited
additional fieldwork as part of my job at the Kansas State Historical
Society during the fall of 1996.  A portion of the site was within a new
highway alignment, and has since been paved.  The report of the 1996
field investigations is available free of charge from the Kansas State
Historical Society, 6425 SW 6th Ave., Topeka, KS 66614-1099.  The
reference to this report is:
Marsha K. King, 1996, _Results of Phase III Archeological Investigations at
the Midian Townsite, 14BU381, Butler County, Kansas_.  KSHS Contract
Archeology Publication No. 13.  Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka,
KS.
 
I would be interested to see your bibliography when it has been compiled.
 
Marsha King
Special Projects Archeologist
Kansas State Historical Society
6425 SW 6th Ave.
Topeka, KS   66614-1099
(785) 272-8681, ext. 253
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