Ron, if you saw the presentation at the 2001 SCA or 2005 SHA meetings that was my work at Soap Creek Pass on the Pickering Lumber Corporation. :-) If anyone is interested in pursuing this angle, there is a chapter on this project in the Brandon and Barile volume, Household Chores and Household Choices: Theorizing the Domestic Sphere in Historical Archaeology (Univ Alabama Press, 2005). 
 
 Stathi
 
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 Efstathios I. Pappas, MS
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 Department of Anthropology/096
 University of Nevada, Reno
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 Subject: Re: Railroad/logging Camps
 
  Here is another thought on railroad and some logging camps. They built  

portable buildings that sometimes exhibited sled-type foundations that could be  



hauled down roads or up on flatcars to relocate the camps. I watched a  

presentation on California railroad camps which were simply abandoned out in a  

forest 

and, although rotten, the contents were in relatively pristine condition  for 

archaeology mapping and documentation. 

 

Ron May

Legacy 106, Inc.

   
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