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 [log in to unmask] http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/kshs/kshs1.html