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The conventional view of Virginia City as a ramshackle mining camp populated largely by miners and the businesses - saloons, hotels, brothels- that served their needs obscures a significant and fascinating aspect of its history: it was home to large numbers of women and children. In this provocative...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-, Raymond, C. Elizabeth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, ©1998.
Colección:Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities (Unnumbered)
Temas:
Women > Nevada > Virginia City > Social conditions.
Mines and mineral resources > Nevada > Virginia City > History.
Femmes > Nevada > Virginia City > Conditions sociales.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Mines and mineral resources
Women > Social conditions
Mijnbouw.
Steden.
Vrouwen.
Sociaal-economische situatie.
Virginia City (Nev.) > History.
Comstock Lode (Nev.)
Nevada > Comstock Lode
Nevada > Virginia City
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. "I Am Afraid We Will Lose All We Have Made": Women's Lives in a Nineteenth-Century Mining Town / C. Elizabeth Raymond
  • 2. Women of the Mining West: Virginia City Revisited / Ronald M. James and Kenneth H. Fliess
  • 3. Redefining Domesticity: Women and Lodging Houses on the Comstock / Julie Nicoletta
  • 4. "They Are Doing So to a Liberal Extent Here Now": Women and Divorce on the Comstock, 1859-1880 / Kathryn Dunn Totton
  • 5. The "Secret Friend": Opium in Comstock Society, 1860-1887 / Sharon Lowe
  • 6. Creating a Fashionable Society: Comstock Needleworkers from 1860 to 1880 / Janet I. Loverin and Robert A. Nylen
  • 7. Mission in the Mountains: The Daughters of Charity in Virginia City / Anne M. Butler
  • 8. Divination on Mount Davidson: An Overview of Women Spiritualists and Fortunetellers on the Comstock / Bernadette S. Francke
  • 9. "The Advantage of Ladies' Society": The Public Sphere of Women on the Comstock / Anita Ernst Watson, Jean E. Ford and Linda White
  • 10. Their Changing World: Chinese Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910 / Sue Fawn Chung
  • 11. "And Some of Them Swear Like Pirates": Acculturation of American Indian Women in Nineteenth-Century Virginia City / Eugene M. Hattori
  • 12. Erin's Daughters on the Comstock: Building Community / Ronald M. James
  • 13. Girls of the Golden West / Andria Daley Taylor
  • 14. Gender and Archaeology on the Comstock / Donald L. Hardesty
  • App. I. Statistical Profile of Women on the Comstock
  • App. II. Birthplace of Females in Storey County, 1860-1910
  • App. III. Occupations of Women on the Comstock, 1860-1910.

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