Virginia City : Secrets of a Western Past /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
Autor Corporativo: Society for Historical Archaeology
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gold mines and mining > Nevada > Virginia City > History.
Silver mines and mining > Nevada > Virginia City > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > Nevada > Virginia City.
Virginia City (Nev.) > Antiquities.
Virginia City (Nev.) > Social life and customs.
Virginia City (Nev.) > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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