Virginia City : secrets of a western past /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
Corporate Author: Society for Historical Archaeology
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, 2012.
Series:Historical archaeology of the American West.
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life > Nevada > Virginia City.
Silver mines and mining > Nevada > Virginia City > History.
Gold mines and mining > Nevada > Virginia City > History.
Argent > Mines et extraction > Nevada > Virginia City > Histoire.
Or > Mines et extraction > Nevada > Virginia City > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Antiquities
Frontier and pioneer life
Gold mines and mining
Manners and customs
Silver mines and mining
Virginia City (Nev.) > History.
Virginia City (Nev.) > Social life and customs.
Virginia City (Nev.) > Antiquities.
Nevada > Virginia City
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Twenty-one bits of glass, historical archaeology, and the meaning of the West
  • Gold and silver!
  • A crowded city on the mining frontier
  • An Irish blacksmith and the archaeology of belief
  • The Chinese
  • Saloons and the archaeology of leisure
  • Women on the mining frontier
  • Kids on the Comstock
  • Piper's Opera House and the archaeology of theater
  • Death and the material culture of the final chapter
  • Epilogue: Breathing meaning into the past.

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