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Book Notes
Compiled and written by Ken DuBois
| Vashon Island Archaeology: A View from Burton Acres Shell Midden, edited by Julie K. Stein and Laura S. Phillips (University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2003. Illustrations, maps, tables. 151 pages. $30.00 paper.)
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| The Burton Acres Shell Midden site on Vashon Island in Puget Sound became the focus of a two-week public archaeological project in 1995, and this volume details the discovery process shared by middle-school and university students, Burke Museum staff, and members of the Puyallup tribe. Included are sections on field methods and stratigraphy and detailed descriptions of the excavation and findings. |
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| Bodie's Gold: Tall Tales and True History from a California Mining Town, by Marguerite Sprague (University of Nevada Press, Reno and Las Vegas, 2003. Photographs, map, notes, references, index. 248 pages. $34.95 cloth.)
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| Bodie, California, reached its population peak in the late 1870s and early 1880s with nearly ten thousand residents, more than sixty saloons and dance halls, and a reputation as one of the wildest towns in the West. Rather than focus on the mining history of the area, Sprague's book examines life in the town of Bodie and attempts to set the record straight on a number of popular local legends. |
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