TY - BOOK AU - James,Ronald M. ED - Society for Historical Archaeology. ED - Project Muse. TI - Virginia City: secrets of a western past T2 - Historical archaeology of the American West SN - 9780803240087 AV - F849.V8 J364 2012 U1 - 979.3/56 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology KW - Gold mines and mining KW - Nevada KW - Virginia City KW - History KW - Silver mines and mining KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Virginia City (Nev.) KW - Antiquities KW - Social life and customs KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780803240087/ ER -