Title

Interpreting Settler Infrastructure in Stevens County, Minnesota: Gager's Station and the Post Dakota-US War of 1862 Frontier

Document Type

Book

Authors

Mitchell Kane Hancock, University of Minnesota - MorrisFollow

Files

Description

Gager's Station is a little known, but formative settler infrastructure project from the 1860s in west-central Minnesota. Gager's Station was situated along both an important military supply route, and lands of significant importance to the Indigenous people of the area. Gager's Station bears several similarities to the scout camps and civilian defense forts in the broader Fort Wadsworth network that provided civilian defense to new homesteaders following the Dakota-US War of 1862. Fort Wadsworth served as another goal post in western expansion of the United States. Further, the networks of forts that supported it appeased the anxious settlers who feared Dakota uprising levels of reprisal from people who no longer lived in their settlements. The following is a synthesis of the historical and archaeological record of Fort Wadsworth network and how Gager's Station fits into the broader goals of the colonial project in the upper Midwest.

Publication Date

4-22-2022

Keywords

Gager's Station (Minn.); Frontier and pioneer life--Minnesota; Stevens County (Minn.)--Antiquities

Disciplines

Archaeological Anthropology

Comments

Adviser: Rebecca Dean

Recommended Citation

Hancock, Mitchell Kane, "Interpreting Settler Infrastructure in Stevens County, Minnesota: Gager's Station and the Post Dakota-US War of 1862 Frontier" (2022). Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022. 1.
https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/urs_2022/1

Primo Type

Conference Proceeding