Virginia City [electronic resource] : secrets of a western past / Ronald M. James.
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- 9780803240087
- 0803240082
- 979.3/56 23
- F849.V8 J364 2012
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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