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This may be a little early for what you want. I hope it helps.
Wagner, Mark J. and Mary R. McCorvie (editors)
1992 The Archaeology of the Old Landmark: Nineteenth-Century Taverns along
the St. Louis-Vincennes Trace in Southern Illinois. Illinois Department of
Transportation Center for American Archaeology.
Elizabeth L. Fuller
Southern Illinois University
At 03:33 PM 5/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I am writing a preliminary research design for a project in northern
>California, and am looking for reports on similar sites so that I can pose
>intelligent (or at least that's the idea) research questions to guide
>possible test excavations and frame significance evaluations.
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>The site is in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada--mining country--and is a
>roadhouse dating from ca. 1875 to 1910. Travelers stopped here for a night,
>or a meal, or maybe just to change horses. It was, of course, connected to
>a homestead.
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>Another component of the site is a copper mine dating from ca. 1890 to
>1920. The people who owned the roadhouse operated the mine and boarded the
>miners in an on-site bunkhouse. I am interested in both the mining
>operation and the physical remains of bunkhouse living.
>
>I'd be happy to hear about examples from any geographic region. Report
>citations would be most useful. Feel free to respond off-list to
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>Thank you.
>
>Grace Ziesing
>Anthropological Studies Center
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