David & Jennifer Chance and Associates

Historical Archaeology Directed as Principal Investigator

• Fort Colvile of the Hudson's Bay Company.
• The Spalding American Board Mission and the first Nez Perce Indian Agency.
• The HBC Kanaka village and the overlying army component.
• Fort Lapwai quartermaster stables and blacksmith shop.
• Fort Spokane, Washington.
• St. Paul's Jesuit Mission, Kettle Falls.
• The City of Rocks stage station.
• Surveys of segments of overland emigrant trails: Oregon Trail (South Snake variant and the Goodale Cutoff); The Applegate/California Trail through City of Rocks; the Salt Lake Alternate to the California Trail. As with all trails and roads we look for and describe associated features and characteristics rather than just the line of travel.
• Location of segments of Native American trails: the Nez Perce southern trail to the Plains; parts of the Nez Perce War Trail of 1877 including the Lolo Trail; the Kalispel Silvis and a related Vision Quest trail in the Selkirks. Work on trails and roads is usually confined to the observation and recording of visible surface features, not excavation.
• The location and markings of livestock drive trails.
• Wagon roads such as the Thunder Road to mines in central Idaho; the Chico Road to the Owyhee and other mining districts in Idaho and Montana; the Kettle Falls bateau and foot portages.
• The location of battlefields with the aim of eventual mapping and other studies: as with Infernal Caverns, Watson's Springs, Tear Ass Plain, Inskip's Ranch, Camp C.F. Smith, Three Forks Owyhee, and Abert Rim.
• An inventory of Nez Perce allotment homesteads.

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