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Virginia City [electronic resource] : secrets of a western past / Ronald M. James.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Historical archaeology of the American West | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (p. cm.)ISBN:
  • 9780803240087
  • 0803240082
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 979.3/56 23
LOC classification:
  • F849.V8 J364 2012
Online resources:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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