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Virginia City : secrets of a western past

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Title Information:	secrets of a western past
Author:	JamesRonald M., 1955-
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Society for Historical Archaeology
Place of Publication:	Lincoln
Published:	University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology;
Year of Publication:	2012
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 147 p.)ill. :
Series:	Historical archaeology of the American West
Subject:	Gold mines and mining - History - Nevada -
Subject:	Silver mines and mining - History - Nevada -
Subject:	Frontier and pioneer life - Nevada -
Subject:	Virginia City (Nev.) - Antiquities -
Subject:	Virginia City (Nev.) - Social life and customs -
Subject:	Virginia City (Nev.) - History -
Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780803240087/
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	9780803240087electronic bk.
ISBN:	0803240082electronic bk.
ISBN:	9780803238480pbk.
Content Note:	Introduction : Twenty-one bits of glass, historical archaeology, andthe 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

Virginia City : secrets of a western past
James, Ronald M.

Virginia City : secrets of a western past / Ronald M. James - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, 2012. - 1 online resource (xxii, 147 p.) ; ill.. - (Historical archaeology of the American West).
Introduction : Twenty-one bits of glass, historical archaeology, andthe 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780803240087ISBN 0803240082ISBN 9780803238480
Gold mines and miningSilver mines and miningFrontier and pioneer life -- History -- History -- Nevada -- Nevada -- Nevada

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