| Description |
xi, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities
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Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history and humanities (Unnumbered)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-380) and index. |
| Contents |
"I am afraid we will lose all we have made" : women's lives in a nineteenth-century mining town / C. Elizabeth Raymond -- Women of the mining West : Virginia City revisited / Ronald M. James and Kenneth H. Fliess -- Redefining domesticity : women and lodging houses on the Comstock / Julie Nicoletta -- "They are doing so to a liberal extent here now": women and divorce on the Comstock, 1859-1880 / Kathryn Dunn Totton -- "Secret friend" : opium in Comstock society, 1860-1887 / Sharon Lowe -- Creating a fashionable society : Comstock needleworkers from 1860 to 1880 / Janet I. Loverin and Robert A. Nylen -- Mission in the mountains : the daughters of charity in Virginia City / Anne M. Butler -- Divination on Mount Davidson : an overview of women spiritualists and fortunetellers on the Comstock / Bernadette S. Francke -- "Advantage of ladies' society" : the public sphere of women on the Comstock / Anita Ernst Watson, Jean E. Ford, and Linda White -- Their changing world : Chinese women on the Comstock, 1860-1910 / Sue Fawn Chung -- "And some of them swear like pirates" : acculturation of American Indian women in nineteenth-century Virginia City / Eugene M. Hattori -- Erin's daughters on the Comstock : building community / Ronald M. James -- Girls of the golden West / Andria Daley Taylor -- Gender and archaeology on the Comstock / Donald L. Hardesty. |
| Subject |
Virginia City (Nev.) -- History.
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Women -- Nevada -- Virginia City -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Nevada -- Virginia City. |
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Social conditions. |
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Comstock Lode (Nev.)
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Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada -- Virginia City -- History.
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Mines and mineral resources. |
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History. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
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Raymond, C. Elizabeth.
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| ISBN |
0874172977 paperback alkaline paper |
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