Accomplishments
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Angus, Carole A., and Carl R. Falk
1986 Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part VI: Preliminary Analysis of Vertebrate Fauna from the 1968-1972 Excavations. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Bauermeister, Ann
2000a Lithic Analysis as a Temporal Determinant: Debitage from Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. Paper presented at the 2000 Joint Midwest Archaeological/Plains Anthropological Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota.

2000b Chipped Stone Use at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, North Dakota. Masters Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for degree of Master of Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Berg, Claudia and William J. Hunt, Jr.
1988-1990 "Fort Union Trading Post," an exhibit at the North Dakota Heritage Center, Bismarck, describing the history and archeology of Fort Union. Prepared as a cooperative venture between the State Historical Society of North Dakota, and the National Park Service Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1990 to 1993 "Fort Union Trading Post," a portable exhibit on Fort Union's history and archeology prepared in cooperation between the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota, and the National Park Service Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska. Exhibit has been on display at: the Denny Federal Building, Lincoln, Nebraska in 1990; the Jefferson Expansion Memorial in 1991; in the lobby of the National Bank of Commerce, Lincoln, as a part of the Midwest Archeological Center's contribution to the National Park Service's 75th anniversary celebration in 1991; at the Hilton Hotel for the 50th Plains Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, November 11-14, 1992; at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center for the 1993 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archeology, January 6-10, Kansas City, Missouri.

Cannon, Kenneth P.
1992 Multivariate Analysis of Canid Remains from Fort Union, North Dakota. Paper presented at the 112th Annual Proceedings of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln.

De Vore, Steven L.
1987a Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part VII: Building Hardware, Construction Materials, Tools and Fasteners. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1987b Lock Hardware During the Historic Fur Trade Period: An Example from Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. Archaeology in Montana 28(1):38-54.

1988 "Fur Trade Blacksmith Shops at Fort Union, North Dakota, 1829-1867." Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Reno, Nevada.

1988 Building Tools from Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, North Dakota. Paper presented at the 46th Plains Anthropological Conference, Wichita, Kansas.

1989 Post Fort Native American Burials at Fort Union Trading Post, North Dakota. Paper presented at the First Joint Archeological Congress, Baltimore.

1990 Fur Trade Era Blacksmith Shops at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, North Dakota. Historical Archaeology 24(3):1-23.

1992 Beads of the Bison Robe Trade: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Montana-North Dakota. USDI-NPS, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska, and The Bead Society, Pacific Palisades, California.

De Vore, Steven L. and William J. Hunt, Jr.
1992 Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part IX: Personal, Domestic, and Architectural Artifacts. Introduction and Conclusion by William J. Hunt, Jr. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1994 Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part X: Native American Burials. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1996 Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part VIII: Artifacts Associated with Transportation, Commerce and Industry, and Unidentified Functions. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Groover, Mark and Melanie A. Cabak
2002 1988 Archeological Investigations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Montana-North Dakota, Block 18 Report, with foreword by William J. Hunt, Jr. U.S.D.I. National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Hensiak, Thomas
1988 "Pickets and Palisades." Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Reno, Nevada.

2002 1988 Archeological Investigations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Montana-North Dakota, Block 22 Report, with foreword by William J. Hunt, Jr. U.S.D.I. National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska (in press).

Huey, Paul R. and William J. Hunt, Jr.
1990 The Great Reconstruction Controversy: A Debate and Discussion. CRM Bulletin 13(1):1-4.

Hunt, William J., Jr.
1985 Bone Gaming Pieces, Ethnic Identity, and Trade: An Example from Fort Union Trading Post, North Dakota. Archaeology in Montana 26(1):44-51.

1985 "Fort Union: Its History, Culture and Archeology." Paper presented at the Marie Sandoz Chapter of Westerners, Lincoln, Nebraska and to the Anthropology Group, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

1986 "The Metis and the Upper Missouri Outfit, 1826-1865." Paper presented as a "Brown Bag Lunch Presentation," Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln.

1986 "1986 Archeological Field Season at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site." Paper presented at the 44th Annual Plains Conference, Denver.

1986a Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part I: A Critical Analysis of Archaeological Excavations. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1986b Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part II: Food Related Items. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1986c Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part III: Personal and Recreation Materials. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1986d Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part IV: Firearms, Trapping and Fishing Equipment. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1986e Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part V: Buttons as Closures, Buttons as Decoration. A Nineteenth Century Example From Fort Union. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1987 "History and Archeology of Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site." Paper presented at the United Nebraska Muzzleloaders 8th Annual Convention, Kearney, Nebraska.

1987 "1986 Archeological Field Season at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site." Paper presented in the symposium "The Fur Trade: Myth and Reality" at the 1st Annual Fur Trade Conference, Fort Laramie National Historic Site.

1989 Historical Archeology: The Fort Union Reconstruction Archeology Project. CRM Bulletin 12(1).

1988 "An Introduction to the Fort Union Reconstruction Archeology Project." Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Reno, Nevada.

1989 "Firearms in the Robe Trade: An Example From Fort Union Trading Post NHS, North Dakota." Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, First Joint Archaeological Congress, Baltimore.

1989 "The Use of Gunflints in Identifying Firearms Type." Paper presented at the Ninety-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln.

1989 "Ethnicity and Firearms in the Upper Missouri Bison Robe Trade: An Examination of Weapon Preference and Utilization at Fort Union Trading Post N.H.S., North Dakota." Paper presented at the 46th Annual Plains Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

1989 Firearms and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade Frontier: Weapons and Related Materials From Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), North Dakota. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

1990 "'At the Yellowstone ....to Build a Fort': the Nascent Years of Fort Union, 1828-1836." Paper presented at the Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium, Williston, North Dakota.

1990 "At the Yellowstone ....to Build a Fort": Fort Union Trading Post, 1828-1833. Paper submitted for publication in the Proceedings of the Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium, Williston, North Dakota.

1990 "Life On the Fur Trade Frontier." Paper presented as a Nebraska State Historical Society Brown Bag Lecture, Clark Library, Omaha.

1991 "Origins of Fort Union: Archeology and History." Paper presented at the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, September 25-29.

1993 "Small Cannon in the Nineteenth-Century American Fur Trade." Paper presented at the 26th Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Kansas City, Missouri, January 6-10.

1993 Ethnicity and Firearms in the Upper Missouri Bison Robe Trade: An Examination of Weapon Preference and Utilization at Fort Union Trading Post N.H.S., North Dakota. Historical Archeology 27(3):74-101.

1994 "Perspectives on Fort Union." Guest lecture at "Northern Plains Fur Trade," a North Dakota History Conference symposium co-sponsored by the State Historical Society of North Dakota, the North Dakota Heritage Foundation, and the North Dakota Humanities Council held at the North Dakota Heritage Center, Bismarck, October 28-29.

1994a Origins of Fort Union: Archeology and History. In The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, 1991, edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown, W.J. Eccles, and Donald P. Heldman, Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Michigan, pp. 377-392.

1994b "At the Yellowstone ....to Build a Fort": Fort Union Trading Post, 1828-1833. In Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium Proceedings, pp. 7-21. Friends of Fort Union, Williston, North Dakota.

1994c Fort Floyd: History and Archaeology of an Enigmatic 19th Century Trading Post. North Dakota History 61(3):7-20.

1996 "FOUS Reconstruction Archeology Project." Presentation at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, FOVA Curation Conference, Ft. Vancouver, Washington, April 4, 1996.

1996 "Digging Up Fort Union: the History and Archeology of Fort Union Trading Post, National Historic Site." A lecture presented by Dr. William J. Hunt, Jr., Archeologist for the National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Omaha Westerners Club, October 17, 1996, and Mid-West Tool Collectors Association Meeting, October 20, 1996.

1998 "The Fort Union Archeological Project: Past, Present, Future." Paper presented as a guest speaker at "Forgotten Faces, Forgotten Places: Historical and Archaeological Portraits of South Dakota," South Dakota State Historical Society Annual Meeting, March 27-28, 1998.

1998 "The Historical Archeology of Fort Union, 'The Vastest And Finest Of The Forts' on the Upper Missouri." Paper presented as a guest speaker of the American Institute of Archaeology meeting, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Sept. 1998.

1998 "The Historical Archeology of Fort Union, 'The Vastest And Finest Of The Forts' on the Upper Missouri." (revised from Joslyn paper). Paper presented as a public lecture at the 56th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Bismarck, North Dakota, October 17, 1998.

2002 1988 Archeological Investigations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Montana-North Dakota, Block 19 Report. U.S.D.I. National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska (in press).

Hunt, William J., Jr. and Joseph Brandon
1990 Using Agricultural Grain Cleaners to Mechanically Screen Earth. Journal of Field Archaeology 17:116-121.

Hunt, William J., Jr. and Lynelle A. Peterson
1988 Fort Union Trading Post: Archeology and Architecture. The 1986 Excavations. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Jameson, John H. Jr. and William J. Hunt, Jr.
1999 Reconstruction Versus Preservation-in-Place in the U.S. National Park Service. In The Constructed Past: Experimental Archaeology, Education and the Public, edited by Peter G. Stone and Philippe G. Planel, pp. 35-62. Routledge Press, New York.

Jantz, R. L. and R. W. Mann
1987 Analysis of a Burial From the Fort Union Trading Post, North Dakota. Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee. Submitted to Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Lincoln, Nebraska. Contract No. PX-6115-7-0023.

Kreuzer, Lee Ann
1988 "Modern and Historical Soil Alterations at the Fort Union Site." Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Reno, Nevada.

Mead, A. Holly
1997 Richness and Abundance: Pipe Forms from Fort Union National Trading Post. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Plains Conference, Nov. 19-22, Boulder, Colorado.

Mead, Angelina Holly
1999 Design analysis and chemical characterization of non-tubular stone pipes of the Great Plains and Eastern U.S. PhD. dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology, University Of Missouri - Columbia.

Mead, A. Holly and Michael D. Glascock
1998 Chemical Characterization of Pipestone by Neutron Activation Analysis. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Plains Conference, Bismarck, North Dakota.

Peterson, Lynelle A.
1988 "Early Fort Union: Archaeological and Historical Analysis of Fort Union Prior to 1832." Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Reno, Nevada.

2002 1988 Archeological Investigations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Montana-North Dakota, Block 15 Report, with foreword by William J. Hunt, Jr. U.S.D.I. National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

2002 1988 Archeological Investigations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Montana-North Dakota, Block 16 Report, with foreword by William J. Hunt, Jr. U.S.D.I. National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Peterson, Lynelle, and William J. Hunt, Jr.
1990 The 1987 Investigations at Fort Union Trading Post: Archeology and Architecture. U.S.D.I. National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Roberts, Karin
1998 "Fashion of the Fur Trade: An Analysis of Clothing Styles from the Indians' and Artisans' House at Fort Union." Paper prepared for Technology of Clothing Design 807, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ross, Lester A.
1995 Trade Beads from the Garden Coulee Site (32WI18), ca. 1869-1884 Hidatsa-Mandan Village Site, Fort Union Trading Post NHS, North Dakota. Ms. in possession of author.

2000 Trade Beads from Archeological Excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. Produced by the National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska, in cooperation with the Fort Union Association, Williston, North Dakota.

Springer, Karri L.
2000 "Piecing It All Together: An Analysis of Ceramic Gaming Pieces from Fort Union, ND." Paper presented April 24, at the 110th Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Sturdevant, Jay
2001 Stratigraphy, Chronology, and Architecture at a Historic Fur Trade Post: A Harris Matrix Application at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, North Dakota. Masters thesis, Graduate College, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Sudderth, W.E. and Linda J. Darnell Hulvershorn
2000 The Rare Bone China Gorgets of Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Williston, North Dakota. Historical Archaeology 34(4):102-121.

Thiel, John H.
1992 Food and Power: Meat Procurement and Distribution at Fort Union Trading Post, National Historic Site. Masters thesis, Anthropology Department, University of Arizona, Tempe.

Thiel, J. Homer
1993 "Diet and Occupation at Fort Union Trading Post." Paper presented at the 26th Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Kansas City, Missouri, January 6-10.

1995 Food and Power: Meat Procurement and Distribution at Fort Union Trading Post, National Historic Site. Volumes in Historical Archaeology No. 30, Stanley South, series editor. South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. Columbia, South Carolina.

Thiel, J. Homer
1998 Worked Bone Artifacts Recovered During Excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, 32WI17, North Dakota. Report prepared by Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona, under contract 1443PX6115970012 for the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

2002a 1988 Archeological Investigations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Montana-North Dakota, Block 20 Report, with foreword by William J. Hunt, Jr. U.S.D.I. National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska (in press).

2002b 1988 Archeological Investigations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Montana-North Dakota, Block 21 Report, with foreword by William J. Hunt, Jr. U.S.D.I. National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Lincoln, Nebraska (in press).

Weymouth, John W.
1988 "A Magnetic Survey of the Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, North Dakota." Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Reno, Nevada.

1991 A Magnetic Survey of the Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site: Correlations with Three Seasons of Excavations. University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Submitted to the National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Purchase Order No. PX-6115-7-0150.

1994 An Analysis of Magnetometer Data Gathered Over the Possible Site of Fort William, North Dakota. University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Submitted to the National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Purchase Order No. 1443PX6115940065.

Whitehurst, John C.
1988 Bastion Construction Techniques at Fort Union, North Dakota. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Reno, Nevada. In vertical file, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center Library, Lincoln, Nebraska.

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