A Look at Early Nineteenth Century Life in an Ozarks Mining Town
The View from the Company Store
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9216459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James R Wettstaed (Mark Twain National Forest, Potosi Ranger District, PO Box 188 Potosi, MO 63664, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 171 |
| Pages | 85-112 |
| Publication date | 2000-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2052546.2000.11931992 |
| OpenAlex | W2467412392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Store records provide an intimate look at the lives of people in a local community. An examination of the day books from the company store of an early nineteenth century Ozarks mining town provides detailed information on the diversity and quantity of goods available in a remote frontier community. The picture that emerges is of an independent and largely self-sufficient people intimately connected to the larger world. Such detailed data on available consumer goods provides important comparative material for archaeologists, as only a small percentage of a person’s purchases actually appear in the archaeological record
Archaeology · Diversity (politics) · Frontier · Genealogy · Geography · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Anthropology · Archaeology and Natural History · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2003 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |