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Depression-Era Coloma: A World-Systems Study of Mining and Daily Life Experiences in a Reoccupied Montana Ghost Town
Abstract
dc:description.abstractAnthropologically based studies are underdeveloped on the subject of people living in Montana during the Great Depression. During the summer of 2006, archaeological materials were retrieved from a Depression-Era trash dump at Coloma, Montana. From these artifacts and the available historical records about the area, this thesis postulates on the possible daily experiences of the people responsible for the creation of this dump. The data is then used as the foundation for a World-Systems perspective on the site, which, in turn, connects this mining camp to the world at large during the 1930s.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Montana
- Year
- 2008
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Woody, Benjamin
Subjects
dc:subject × 5Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/301
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarworks.umt.edu:etd-1320