Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction -- 2. Scope and Schedule of Archaeological Investigations -- Initial Visit to the Buxton Townsite -- Preliminary Field Investigations, 1980 -- Preliminary Laboratory Analysis, 1980-1981 -- Planning the Internship Program -- The 1981 Field Season -- Continuing Laboratory Work, 1981-1982 -- 3: Buxton's Setting: Geography, Economic Geology, and Town Planning -- 4: Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Townsite -- Reconnaissance Unit B -- Reconnaissance Unit KC -- Reconnaissance Unit J -- Reconnaissance Unit C -- Carlson Property -- Reconnaissance Unit KP -- Buxton Cemetery -- Harris Property -- 5. Test Excavations and Investigation of Former Buildings -- Excavation Methods and Procedures -- The Stone Warehouse (Structure 1) -- The Company Store (Structure 2) -- The Company Office (Structure 3) -- The Main YMCA (Structure 4) -- The Boys' YMCA (Structure 5) -- Evidence for the Street Fronting the YMCA -- The White House Hotel (Structure 6) -- A Residence and Outbuildings (The Structure 7-10 Complex) -- Residential Building (Structure 11) -- Surface Indications of Unidentified Buildings (Structures 12-16) -- The Power Plant (Structure 17) -- Possible Remains of Armstrong's Meat Market (Structure 18) -- Possible Ruins of the Telegraph Office (Structure 19) -- Concrete Viaduct and Steel Culvert (Structures 20 and 21) -- The Mine Superintendent's House (Structures 22-24) -- The Superintendent's Outbuildings (Structural Complex 25) -- The Sewer Pipe (Structure 26) -- Excavations at the South End of Site Survey Unit KP-3 -- 6. Portable Artifacts from the Townsite -- Ceramic Artifacts -- Glass Artifacts -- Metal Artifacts -- Celluloid Artifacts -- Rubber Artifacts -- Shell Artifacts -- Bone Artifacts -- Leather and Hair Artifacts -- Textile Artifacts -- Paper Artifacts.

Stone Artifacts -- Artifacts of Miscellaneous Media -- Artifacts of Composite Materials -- Plant Remains -- Animal Remains -- 7. Social and Cultural Patterns from an Archaeological Perspective -- Making It: The Business, Commercial, and Occupational Enterprise -- Home, Home by the Range: The Distaff and Domestic Domains -- Getting Around: Transportation, Utilities, and Facilities -- Having Fun: Recreation and Relaxation -- Praying and Passing: Religious and Mortuary Patterns -- 8. Buxton in Retrospect and Prospect -- Archaeological Extent and Quality of the Townsite -- Buxton's Relationship to National Trade Networks -- Regional and National Significance of Buxton -- Buxton's Settlement Pattern -- Ethnicity in Buxton -- What about Buxton as Utopia? -- References Cited -- Interviews -- Index -- Untitled.